Jasper’s Big White Rock
The big white boulder that sits in the parking lot on Connaught Drive has a history that predates the town. The glacial material found throughout the valley was built over, around, moved or re purposed throughout Jasper. Some of our photographs show a boulder painted white, labelled with the names of the surrounding peaks and […]
The 6060
Canadian National Railways steam locomotive 6060 was built at the Montreal Locomotive Works in 1944 and entered the main line passenger service, part of the prestige runs known as the Continental Limited and International Limited in Quebec and Ontario. In 1955 the 6060 was sent west after a conversion from coal to oil but was […]
The Columbia Icefield
Miette Hot Springs
Can-U-Canoe
Jasper on Parade
Whistlers Mountain
Whistlers Mountain, earlier known as Goat Mountain, was Jasper’s first ski hill. The Jasper Park Ski Club members began brushing and burning to create ski runs on the mountain in 1935 and a club tent was set up at the bottom of the mountain. In those days you would ski from town through the 1913 […]
Cyril Geoffrey Wates
Cyril Geoffrey Wates was born in Brixton in 1883 and immigrated to Canada working for the City of Edmonton Municipal Telephone System from 1909-1946. He was a man of many interests including music, mountaineering, astronomy, and writing. Wates joined the Alpine Club of Canada in 1916 and participated in 20 summer camps and climbed more […]
Mount Edith Cavell
Construction of the Mount Edith Cavell Road began in the mid 1900s and the road officially opened in 1927. In 1924 Fred Slark built a small frame building to be used as a teahouse that was moved up the road as construction progressed. After his death on Mount Redoubt in 1927, his widow, Grace, had […]
Maligne Canyon
