Council in Alberta mountain town of Canmore rejects one of two developments Poll yes By The Canadian Press on April 27, 2021. A housing development near the Three Sisters mountains on the eastern edge of Canmore, Alta., is shown on July 2, 2017. Canmore's town council is debating the next step on two development projects that could almost double the mountain town's population in the coming decades. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Colette Derworiz CANMORE, Alta. – Town council in a popular Alberta mountain community has rejected one of two proposed development projects that together would have almost doubled its population in the coming decades. Plans for the proposed Three Sisters Village and Smith Creek projects in Canmore, west of Calgary, covered about 80 per cent of the town’s developable land.