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V R a ^ W N ® DO @ O, 4 >-vra^ w n ® DO @ o, 4 **. »'$•. Lr LnJ Lru u\_\ J^LJJ HtaSu^^^^ub^^^^^^^^^JI ^U^^^^^^^H^^^^H CJ JASPER NATIONAL PARK ALBERTA MAIN HIGHWAY AND RAILWAY ROUTES TO THE NATIONAL PARKS IN ALBERTA AND BRITISH COLUMBIA A PLEASURELAND OF SCENIC SPLENDOUR IN THE HEART OF THE CANADIAN ROCKIES 4,200 SQUARE MILES OF BIG GAME PRESERVE THE LARGEST NATIONAL PARK IN AMERICA THROUGH THE HEART OF THE ROCKIES ALONG THE SCENIC HIGHWAY WHICH SKIRTS THE GREAT COLUMBIA ICEFIELD ALONG THE ATHABASKA TRAIL WHERE THE FUR BRIGADES BATTLED FOR MASTERY OF THE FAR WEST THE ATHABASKA TRAIL North West Company, still raise a "/ have seen the gorge of Erie where the ghostly echo. Not only in history, but roaring waters run, in geography as well, has Jasper con­ I have crossed the Inland Ocean, lying tributed to Canada's greatness. For golden in the sun, in the midst of her 4,200 square miles But the last and best and sweetest is the of rolling grandeur lies the vast ride by hill and dale. Columbia Ice-field, the birthplace of With the packer and the pachhorse on three rivers that cleave their ways to the Athabaska Trail." three oceans—the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. Rising around the central feature of ITH the history of a nation the Athabaska Valley, the park in­ W etched on her mountain walls, cludes, among other scenic wonders, and the ghost of the explorer and fur Maligne Lake, Mount Edith Cavell trader still haunting her wooded and the Angel Glacier, the Amethyst valleys, Jasper Park links the lusty Lakes, the Tonquin Valley, and the traditions of Canada with the recre­ Athabaska Glacier. ations of the modern world. Jasper as a national park dates back Into Jasper's wilderness of grandeur to 1907. plodded the explorers who blazed the first trails through the Rockies. Here they fought sickness, privation and the bitter cold of a vengeful Nature. And here their shadows seem to linger ^^M The Committee's on, while the jingling saddle-bells Punch Bowl where, and gay chansons of the pack-trains, in 1825, a Hudson's bound eastward with pelts for the Bay Company governor shared a bottle of wine with his party, and so gave his­ tory and a name to a shining pool. ,i TWENTY SWITZERLANDS IN ONE Snow-capped Mountains, Placid Lakes and Rolling Valleys form a scenic playground which outrivals even Europe's famed resorts NLY a half-day by For sheer magnifi­ O rail from Edmon­ cence, no scene in Jas­ ton, and less than three per Park—or indeed in days from Chicago, Jas­ all the mountains of per National Parkoffers the West—can surpass scenic wonders un­ that from The Narrows excelled in all the world of Maligne Lake. and a wealth of recre­ Here Nature appears ation in a setting as to have drawn upon the changeless as time itself. Alps, the Trossachs and Range on range of the Norwegian fiords for snowy peaks, wreathed this symphony of won­ in ever-changing clouds JASPER OF THE LAKES der, and to have bound and colours, circle the together the whole with "To see it m the Summer; Oh if Heaven rocky sky-line of the is more fair that aura of wild beauty park. And between No wonder men have martyrs been to that only the Rockies gain a dwelling there. them are rolling valleys To look upon its splendour ere the possess. and jagged gorges as Autumn Spirit shakes The upper or eastern far as eye can see. The glory of its foliage around its crystal end of Maligne Lake is lakes— Viewed from the A gold and ruby circled gem is Jasper surrounded by towering lower levels, the peaks of the Lakes." peaks, including tower to heights of T. P. O'Connor, Jasper. Mounts Maligne, War­ bleak but stirring beauty. And from ren, Brazeau, Henry MacLeod, Mary their upper slopes one sees a world so Vaux, Unwin and Charlton. To the dwarfed by distance that only the southeast, the icefields of Mounts Bra­ mountains themselves seem eternal. zeau and Henry MacLeod gleam bril­ Writers of renown for more than a liantly white, and other glaciers hang century have striven to record the near the water's edge, while the placid wonders of the park, while artists have surface of the lake seems to capture left on canvas their impressions of the every detail of the majestic array. varied beauties of her glens and Another of Jasper Park's peerless torrents. beauty spots is the Tonquin Valley. Of imposing Mount Athabaska, Set in the heart of the most moun­ which he was the first to scale in 1898, tainous region and just below the J. Norman Collie wrote: timber line, the Tonquin Valley in­ cludes wide grassy meadows along the "A new world was spread at our feet; to the westward stretched a vast icefield banks of the streams, and stretches of probably never before seen by human eye, balsam and spruce—the whole consti­ and surrounded by entirely unknown, un­ tuting a scene of remarkable loveliness. named and unclimbed peaks . Far away Higher up beyond the timber-line to the west, bending over in those unknown valleys aglowing with the evening light, the there are green slopes and more level snows stretched . From this great meadow land, and beyond that again, snowheld rose solemnly, like 'lonely sea- the precipitous mountain summits stacks in mid-ocean,' two magnificent peaks, rise to their imposing heights. which we imagined to be 13,000 or 14,000 feet high, keeping guard over those unknown To the west the great wall of the western helds of ice." Ramparts, forming the continental Page 4 divide, rises abruptly 4,000 feet above baska Pass, in the winter of 1810-1 1. the valley. Towering over the other Thompson had previously crossed the peaks of this range is Mount Geikie, Rockies farther south via Howse Pass named after the noted geologist, Sir in 1807, while advancing the commer­ Archibald Geikie. cial activities of his employers, the Like a jewel set in the wilderness is a North West Company. beautiful three-mile-long stretch of Historian and biographer as well as water near the south end of the Tonquin explorer, Thompson has left a rich Valley, and known as Amethyst Lakes. legacy of comment and record in the Divided into two parts by a peninsula, trail of his wanderings. these twin lakes, which are 6,450 feet That he had to contend with super­ above sea level, are a favourite haunt stition and fear on the part of his of game. men, as well as the rigours of the The rugged beauty of Athabaska climate, is illustrated by a reference Falls is described with awe by several in his diary to the finding of a foot­ early historians, while in later years print in the snow fourteen inches long Stanley Washburn, the noted jour­ by eight inches wide. He wrote: nalist and war correspondent, penned "I measured it; four large toes each of the following description in his book, four inches in length, to each a short claw. Trails, Trappers and Tenderfeet: The ball of the foot sunk three inches lower than the toes. The hinder part of the foot "The river, peaceful and quiet as some did not mark well. We were in no humour great inland waterway, comes flowing around to follow him; the men and Indians would a curve at a width well on to 200 yards, have it to be a young mammoth, and I held and then suddenly the banks close in and it to be the track of a large grizzled bear." the whole volume of water seems to leap suddenly forward over a ledge less than The most famous of the several one-third that width, and fall into a chasm passes which have opened the way for some 80 feet deep. The walls close in transportation and commerce through abruptly from both sides, and the vast the Rockies in the Jasper region is tumult of water goes surging through a the Athabaska Pass, crossed by gorge so narrow that a man could easily Thompson in 1811, and now one of leap across from wall to wall. Far down the most noted points of interest in in the depths is the white froth and resonant all the vast playground. Situated at roaring of this vast stream, which is con­ gested into such meagre space that it seems the headwaters of the Whirlpool River, as though the walls of stone could not the Athabaska Pass was for many withstand the fury with which it lashes years the main route of the fur traders at the rocky barriers that enclose it. A in their annual trips across the Rockies hundred feet above it. the noise and thunder to the Columbia River and the Pacific created down in the depths are so great Coast. that only by shouting can one make his voice heard a foot away." Redolent of the romance which sur­ rounded its discovery is the "Com­ Equally impressive is Maligne Can­ mittee's Punch Bowl" on the summit yon, so narrow that, although a roar­ of the pass. It was so named because ing torrent penetrates its 180-foot depths, its lips in places are only a few feet apart. The falls and canyon of the Sunwapta River also present a magnificent spectacle. The first recorded visit of a white man to what is now Jasper Park was made by David Thompson on his famous journey across the Rockies to the Columbia River by way of Atha­ PageS Sir George Simpson, then governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, treated his little entourage to a bottle of wine in passing the pool during a crossing in 1825.
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