1 Coal mining soon moved a few miles east of Banff to Canmore where the coal mine operated for 80 years. 2  The Crowsnest Pass in southern Alberta was also developed as a coal mining centre to supply coal to CPR.3  A similar role was established in west-central Alberta for an area known as the Coal Branch. Some of the earliest mining in Alberta was within what is now Banff National Park. 2  Coal was mined at Bankhead, a community just a few miles east of Banff townsite, to supply the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Definitions for shant. Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word shant. Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: Origin: This came briefly into use at the end of the eighteenth century. It is not an older form of the contraction, though, as shan't predates it in print by about a century. (Source: World Wide Words )
Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: graft (Noun). A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it.The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit. graft (Noun). A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot. con job. graft (Noun). A cut of the take (money). graft (Verb). To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon. graft (Verb). To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.