Num-Ti-Jah Lodge Bow Lake Alberta Banff National Park #1046 Byron Harmon Artist RPPC Postcard SP21

The Num-Ti-Jah Lodge at Bow Lake Alberta was built by the legendary outfitter and guide Jimmy Simpson. He first camped at Bow Lake in 1898 and loved it so much he vowed to build there someday. In 1937 he and his family started to construct what would come to be known as the ‘Num-Ti-Jah' Lodge - a Stoney Nakoda word for pine marten, a small animal.

Building of the lodge was made possible with the help of earnings from their two daughters' ice skating careers. Margaret and Mary Simpson were talented and successful skaters and performed on tours all over North America.   

“Toronto skating enthusiasts today awarded the palm to the Simpson sisters of Banff, Alberta, for their week-end exhibition here. Especially brilliant was the Simpson Sisters' novelty skit, entitled 'They Get Their Man.' Attired in Royal Canadian Mounted Police costumes, the young ladies performed in spectacular fashion and were roundly applauded."  

~ Last paragraph is from The Calgary Daily Herald, January 4, 1938