Be sure to take the toad on daily forays, like to Field and Golden and the spiral railway tunnel viewpoint(s) on Hwy 1. Or the Kootenay to Radium Hot Springs drive; that and a trip to Jasper can be much more than day jaunts, however. Consider taking the coach north a ways. We loved dry camping at the more "primitive" (in 2012) Mosquito Creek, where bears transected camp evenings/mornings, and the Bow cutthroats were hitting my flies on both the Bow River at the creek mouth and the creek next to the campground.
Mom was born in a sod house on the Alberta Prairie, and we visited Western Canada almost yearly when I was a kid. I have one elderly cousin left, in Calgary.
-Joel (aka Hafcanadian)