By the way folks, and a bit off topic of what this thread is about, just for general interest I wanted to mention that I've been reading about the local airport expansion that's being expanded to include INTERNATIONAL flights. I'm not sure what size planes they're talking about though. I've never been to the airport so don't know how big it is. As far as I know, at the moment the closest places to catch international flights are Vancouver and Calgary, but come Sept it looks like flying direct to the States, from here, to catch overseas flights could happen???

This from the Cranbrook Airport site:

(The other thing in the works is that there is a request in the works to expand Cranbrooks boundaries to two more times the size it is now, and lots of development would soon start happening.)