Canmore · Bow ValleyEst. 1992

The Bow Valley's trusted electrician since 1992.

Wayne & Cheryl Cote's family shop has kept the lights on across Canmore and the valley for three decades — and we're still the local you can call when your place has a problem and you're not there to meet us.

Family-run since 1992 BBB A+ Accredited Bow Valley Trail storefront
Wayne Cote of Wayco Electric standing beside the company van at a Canmore job site, snow-capped Rockies behind Wayne, on site in Canmore
An institution, not a search result

Thirty years the valley can vouch for.

Newer shops have slicker sites. Not one of them can manufacture three decades in the Bow Valley — the one thing that tells an out-of-town owner they can hand over a key.

Since 1992
Founded by Wayne Cote — more than thirty years wiring the Bow Valley.
BBB A+
Accredited by the Better Business Bureau since 2005.
Family-run
Wayne on the tools, Cheryl in the office. Same family, same phone.
A real storefront
906 Bow Valley Trail — a Canmore shop, not a call-forwarding number.
Wayne Cote, owner of Wayco Electric, in a hard hat and hi-vis vest Wayne Cote · Owner
The name is a person

Wayco is Wayne Cote. And Wayne picks up.

In a valley full of numbered companies and out-of-town crews, Wayco has always been one family: Wayne on the tools, Cheryl running the office, answering the same Canmore number since 1992. When you call, you reach the people whose name is on the van — not a dispatch centre three provinces away.

That's the whole point. The question a second-home owner really asks isn't "are you licensed?" It's "who am I trusting inside my house?" For thirty years, the Bow Valley's answer has been Wayne.

Same family, same valley — still picking up.

— The Wayco promise, since 1992
For when you're not here

Away from your place? We're the local you call.

A dead panel or a failed fire-alarm inspection from three provinces away is a cancelled booking and a bad review. You need someone minutes from your door who's been here thirty years — and who answers.

Lights off Lights on
1

You call — or your manager does

One number, answered by the people who own the company. Tell us the address, the gate code, where the panel is.

2

A local who knows the valley shows up

No stranger from the city. A thirty-year Canmore electrician who's likely wired homes on your street already.

3

Documented, compliant, done

Fixed, inspected, and reported back — so your rental keeps earning and your empty house stays safe. You never left the couch.

What we do

Built for how the valley lives now.

Full-scope residential and commercial — with a service list already aimed at mountain second homes and short-term rentals.

Panel upgrades & service

More capacity for hot tubs, EV charging, and additions — done to code.

Standby generators

Power that holds through a mountain outage, whether you're home or not.

EV chargers

Level 2 charging installed cleanly for the driveway or the garage.

Hot tubs & spas

Compliant, safe wiring for the après-ski essential every mountain home wants.

Exterior & landscape lighting

Lit paths and a warm-lit facade that says someone's looking after the place.

Fire-alarm install & testing

Pass inspection and protect the booking — the STR owner's quiet lifeline.

New construction & multi-unit

The reliable sub the valley's builders have trusted on site since 1992.

Emergency service

A dead panel doesn't wait for morning. Neither do we.

Wayne using a Fluke thermal-imaging camera to inspect an electrical panel
Hot spot found
Fluke thermal imaging
Old-school trust, modern tools

We find the hot spot before it finds you.

Thirty years in the trade doesn't mean thirty-year-old methods. Thermal imaging catches a failing connection while it's still just warm — long before it becomes smoke behind a wall in a house nobody's watching.

Diagnostics, not guessworkWe scan panels and connections to catch what a visual inspection can't.
Prevention for empty housesThe failures that start fires are exactly the ones an absentee owner never sees coming.
Documented for your recordsFindings written up — useful for insurance, resale, and your own peace of mind.
Who already trusts Wayco

The name the people who build here already know.

The strongest signal isn't a star count — it's that the trades and property managers who run the valley recommend Wayco by name.

4.8 on Google — small but honest,
from customers who found us.
A local plumber running multi-unit builds

Publicly recommends Wayco as the electrician he counts on across Bow Valley construction.

A Bow Valley property-systems company

Vouches for Wayco by name for the homes and systems they manage.

Peer recommendations listed publicly on Alignable (9 from local business owners).

Serving the whole Bow Valley

From the shop on Bow Valley Trail, Canmore.

CanmoreBanffExshawDead Man's FlatsHarvey Heights

As Three Sisters Mountain Village and Silvertip bring a wave of new homes to the valley, Wayco is the established local the builders — and the owners — can source with confidence.

Reach a real person

Tell us about your place.

Call and you'll reach the family that owns the company — same as the valley has for thirty years.

Call Wayco directly(403) 678-6209
Shop906 Bow Valley Trail #2, Canmore AB  T1W 1N6
HoursMonday–Friday, 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM · Emergency service on call

Request a visit

Tell us what's going on and we'll get back to you. For anything urgent, please call.

Goes straight to info@waycoelectric.com

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We'll be in touch. If it can't wait, call (403) 678-6209.