It's on trans Canada so defiantly traffic year round helps. You defiantly need local support to sustain any business with a population of 6000 or so it becomes hard to do.  

You ever see the dudes daughters? Wow, total knock outs. Yeah the Chimo with karaoke or the Zoo bar across the road was crazy too. We partied thoses places to ground back in them days. Good times for sure

Those were the good old days for sure.     I went to Cochrane my first time in 1995.      We always stayed at the NAI when John owned it and the porn channel was playing.       I did like the Chimo as it had a decent restaurant attached the little bar next door was rocking with old Cougars on a Sat night.  

Over the last few years it seems lots of more rural places are seeing growth with new businesses coming in, as well lots of new Canadians located there as well - not sure if this is good or bad based on what it costs us as Canadian to have the new Canadians there (should be nothing but I am afraid that is not the case apparently), how much is the local business and residents negatively affected by it, etc....

Things are going high class for Cochrane! Damn, my wife will want to go sledding again haha.