Discover Balfour

Balfour sits on the west bank of beautiful Kootenay Lake with the Selkirk mountain range as its backdrop. Back in 1889 it was staked as a townsite by Charles Busk, an Englishman who envisioned Balfour becoming a centre for farming. It never did become an agricultural community but instead has survived through the years primarily as a popular resort for fishermen. Today, the area has a populatio...