Abstract
This article evaluates and describes the presence, extent and locational impact of residential second home ownership in the Canadian Rocky Mountain town of Canmore, Alberta in response to planning needs and requirements. This research includes the results of two studies that provide a temporal view of second home retirement owners and amenity attributes through the use of social survey data, multivariate analysis and geographic information system (GIS) visualization. One assumption of second home research focuses on retirement migration towards permanent residency in many amenable environments. The Canmore example illustrates problems with such an assumption and shows that international retirement markets can differ from domestic ones with subsequent differences in ownership patterns, leisure and local participation behaviours, and planning needs. Revealed are landscape attributes and sociocultural amenities important to second homeowners and the larger community. The research outcomes add understanding about international second homeowners in a small Canadian town and how group differences or similarities may translate for future second home retirement plans within this Rocky Mountain gateway to Banff National Park.
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