Cascades of Time Garden Arch - Banff, Canada - Freestanding Arches on Waymarking.com

This garden arch is not far from the entrance to the Cascades of Time Garden, part of the grounds surrounding the Banff Park Administration Building. Both the building and the gardens were designed by Ontario-born architect Harold C. Beckett.

The Cascades of Time Garden was conceived as a way to introduce the lay person to the basics of geology and geologic time. In an Calgary Daily Herald article published on 16 May 1936, Beckett said, “A rock in a glass case in a museum is about as dry and uninteresting an object to a casual observer as could be found, but take that rock out and put it in a natural setting, as part of a skillfully designed landscape with perhaps an unobtrusive label nearby, and it becomes an object of appeal to even the untrained eye. Make the whole a thing of beauty, and people scarcely realize that it is a complete outdoor museum, and not merely a delightful garden plot."

Although Beckett's very ambitious geological and educational vision was never fully realized, his rock gardens with their cascades and pools have been a Banff attraction ever since.

Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada: Harold C. Beckett (visit link)

Type: Gateway Subtype: Other Location: Cascades of Time Garden in Banff National Park

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