Fernie’s old railway station is now its cultural heart: The arts centre hosts a range of events such as concerts, comedy nights, indie film screenings and local art exhibitions. One wing is also given over to the excellent Blue Toque Diner.

Hollywood might have given you the idea that Plains tribes snagged lunch by chasing a buffalo with a bow-and-arrow on horseback, but in reality they often used less romantic but more efficient techniques. The Buffalo Jump was often key: these were cliffs over which hunters would stampede a herd of buffalo to their deaths where they could be quickly butchered....