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The Jasper Welcome Sign at the north entrance to town, 2022. Jasper, 1920. Established in 1813, Jasper House was first a fur trade outpost of the North West Company, and later Hudson's Bay Company, on the York Factory Express trade route to what was then called "New Caledonia" (now British Columbia) and Fort Vancouver on the lower Columbia River. [5]
Jasper Park Information Centre. The Jasper Park Information Centre National Historic Site, located in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada, is the primary visitor contact centre for visitors to the park. Sited in the Jasper townsite, it was built as the park administration building in 1913-1914, and became the visitor contact centre in 1972.
Jasper National Park. Jasper National Park, in Alberta, Canada, is the largest national park within Alberta's Rocky Mountains, spanning 11,000 km 2 (4,200 sq mi). It was established as Jasper Forest Park in 1907, renamed as a national park in 1930, and declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 1984. Its location is north of Banff National Park ...
The Fitzhugh is a weekly newspaper serving the Jasper, Alberta area. The Fitzhugh formerly billed itself as Jasper's independent, locally owned newspaper. [1] It was started in 2005 by a group of five colleagues from Jasper. [2] In 2012 it was sold to Aberdeen Publishing Limited Partnership of British Columbia, and then sold again in 2023 to ...
July 29, 2024 at 3:24 PM. By Nia Williams. (Reuters) - Parks Canada, the federal agency managing the country's national parks, on Monday rejected criticism that it left the town of Jasper ...
The Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge, formerly and commonly known as Jasper Park Lodge, is a 442-room hotel on a 2.8 km 2 (700-acre) site along Lac Beauvert in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. The hotel was established in 1921 by Canadian National Railway and is one of Canada's grand railway hotels .
St. Mary & St. George Parish was a heritage church that reflected the English Gothic revival in Canada. It was in the town of Jasper, in the heart of Jasper National Park, on the Rocky Mountains in the Canadian province of Alberta. The parish church was within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Anglican Diocese of Edmonton, Anglican Church ...
Jasper Lake is a lake located in the Rockies of Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada.It is part of the Athabasca River, where the river broadens out.Its westernmost shore lies about 15 miles (24 km) northeast from the town of Jasper along the Yellowhead Highway (Highway 16) and stretches farther east for about 6 miles (9.7 km).