Booster Bits #6
1986 Slow Pitch Awards Jasper Warden Days September, 1986
Booster Bits #5
Jasper Jr./Sr. High School In-School Awards June 13, 1986
Taking Flight
Dose of Deke #2
Jasper Gas Stations
Booster Bits #4
May 19, 1986
Railway Houses
In 1923 the Canadian Northern Railway subdivision at Lucerne was closed when the Grand Trunk Pacific (GTP) and the Canadian Northern (CNo) Railways were amalgamated to form the Canadian National Railway (CNR). Because of this closure, many Lucerne railway workers and their families moved to Jasper, adding to Jasper’s housing shortage. In 1924 the Canadian […]
A Dose of Deke #1
Deke Hammell was born in Toronto in 1947 and died in Jasper in 2024. He came west in 1970 and worked at Marmot Basin, Maligne Lake and Parks Canada where he was a JNP dispatcher until his retirement. Deke’s cartoons were published in the Jasper Booster, the Fitzhugh and the Jasper Local. We hope you […]
Booster Bits #3
Photos from the September 1986 Jasper Booster
Jasper Schools
1913 Jasper School District established 1914 A railway construction shack left by contractors Phelan and Shirley became Jasper’s first school 1924 classes swelled when residents from Lucerne were transferred to Jasper 1925 Jasper Public school built 1926 A second story was added 1942 An extension was added 1953 Jasper High School was constructed 1958 An […]