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
Bird’s Eye Jasper
Taking Flight
Jasper Gas Stations
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 […]
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 […]
Jasper Advertising
Jasper Totem 1947 Jasper Booster 1978