Films Shot in Jasper
Country Beyond 1926 Filmed on location at Maligne Lake. Director: Irving Cummings – Actors: Olive Borden & Ralph Graves Red Sky/Under Suspicion 1930 Filmed on location at Jasper Park Lodge. Director: A.F. Erikson Actors: Lois Moran & J. Harold Murray Emperor Waltz 1946 Filmed on location at Leach Lake, The Jasper Park Lodge, and the […]
Jasper High School Grads
The Otto Brothers
The Otto Brothers Timeline Jack (1873-1948), Closson (1882-1968) and Bruce (1884-1980) Otto are born in Haliburton, Ontario. 1895 Jack travels west to Golden, B.C. Later Closson & Bruce join him working for Tom Wilson 1904 Ottos outfit for A.O. Wheeler’s topographic survey. 1906 Jack steps in as outfitter for ACC camp in the Yoho Valley […]
Jasper Fire Towers
Jasper Fire Towers 1939 The Signal lookout was constructed. 1942 A steel tower was built at Devona. 1945 The Palisade lookout was built. 1950 The Geraldine tower was constructed. 1955 Bald Hills Lookout was built. By 1978 all Jasper fire towers were decommissioned.
Lake Edith Y.M.C.A. Camp
Lake Edith Y.M.C.A. Camp Timeline 1916 The General Secretary of the Y.M.C.A. travelled by train to select a location for a camp site in Jasper National Park. 1920 A five year lease was signed in May. 1922 The first year of operation using tents 1924 A large log building, built by the Otto brothers, is […]
Jasper Fish Hatchery Timeline
1927-1929 Aquatic plants were placed in several lakes near Jasper Park Lodge and brown trout fry were released in Mildred, Edith, Annette and Big Trefoil lakes by Banff hatchery officers. A vacant construction cabin near Cabin Creek was used as a temporary hatchery. In 1928 190,000 fry were transported to Maligne Lake and the creek […]
Lewis Swift
Lewis Swift was born in 1854 in Ohio. His early adventures may have included driving a stagecoach in South Dakota and seeking his fortune staking mining claims in the United States and later in Canada. After prospecting in British Columbia, Swift made his way into the Athabasca valley and settled at Jasper House, the abandoned […]
Indigenous People in the Athabasca Valley
The Athabasca Valley has been home to Indigenous people for thousands of years. Many groups travelled through this area hunting and gathering and evidence of their presence has been discovered in many of Jasper’s valleys. When Europeans first arrived in the area, they relied on Indigenous knowledge to travel through the mountain passes and survive […]
Project Habbakuk
Habbakuk In 1943, the National Research Council coordinated the top-secret construction of Habbakuk, a 1-to-50-scale model ice and sawdust ship, to test the feasibility of protecting North Atlantic wartime shipping lanes with a fleet of massive, unsinkable aircraft carriers. Project Habbakuk in Jasper began with a heavily insulated wooden frame. Army personnel then added to […]