Jasper...A Walk in the Past Jasper’s Self Guided Tours Fancy yourself a drifter? Channel your inner-explorer and lose yourself in time. You’re steps away from discovering historic Jasper, where dusty pack-horses rested near pool halls, wanderers found one-off shacks nes- tled within the pines, and weary travellers swapped tales of new frontiers. Just what kind of characters were passing through, you wonder, as the train whistle hints at forgotten places, vagabond faces and a time gone by forever? The morning light casts a pinkish hue on Mount Tekarra and a mule deer trots across a path where a campfire once blazed and sizzled in the chill of the alpine air. Amble on Through... Welcome to our self-guided tour of the town site of Jasper, located in the heart of Jasper National Park. Take on the town we call home. Jasper National Park – Our rise to recognition Jasper National Park garnered world attention once Canada deemed our rocky oasis federally protected land in 1907. At the time, it was known as the Jasper Forest Reserve until 1930. And half a century later, UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) declared Jasper National Park a World Heritage Site along with the Na- tional Parks of Banff, Kootenay, and Yoho, and the Provincial Parks of Mt. Robson, Mt. Assiniboine, and Hamber. In 2007, Jasper National Park cele- brated 100 years as the cherished, protected land we continue to celebrate. Friends of Jasper National Park Hwy 16 Maligne Lake Miette Hot Springs Hinton & Edmonton 16 Juniper St d R e k a L id m ra y P Bonhomme e r s C n e sp A Aspen Close Aspen Ave t S e m m o h s n re o C n B li o C Balsam Ave Step into the past no matter where you point your shoes: you're never far from Jasper's historic town centre. 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A Walk in S10.indd the Past 1 Lac Beauvert 4/14/10 2:41:43 PM Friends of Jasper National Park Brewster Old Fort Point Cres Hwy 93 Patricia Pl P a t Swift r Cres i c ia C r e s Stone r eek D Mountain bin Cr Village Ca 93 Mt Robson Valemount Vancouver Sunwapta Falls, Columbia Icefield & Banff Jasper Heritage Railway Station JYMA 994.56.1292 Located at the corner of Connaught Drive and Miette Avenue 1 All Aboard! Start your engines… your train engines, that is. What better way to forced to resign. The town received a new name – imagine how weary travellers were introduced to the town of Jasper than Jasper, after Jasper Hawse who operated a fur trading its historic Railway Station? Kick off your tour in the spot on the map that post near here called “Jasper House”. Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTP) chose to divide the Rocky Mountains. Imagine boarding Jasper’s first passenger train back in 1912 or witness- Canadian Northern Railway also operated a line ing the grand inferno that burned the station to the ground a decade later, through Jasper, and after World War I they amalgam- prompting the construction of the station that stands today. Inspired by pre ated with GTP to become Canadian National (CN). World War I English cottages with tiny-paned windows and uncut cobble- A CN publicist wrote in 1937, “The pen, the brush, the stone, the site was deemed a Heritage Railroad Station by the Historic Sites lute nor the camera can catch the magic of Jasper. That and Monuments Board of Canada. magic is only for the hearts and souls of men and women The original name of our town was “Fitzhugh”. But after the GTP President who have been to Jasper and found it”. We hope that you went down with the Titanic, his protégé Fitzhugh fell from favour and was will catch some of the magic! 1 Totem Pole To promote its northern route across conservation specialists attempted the mountains, Grand Trunk Pacific to save it but the massive wooden Railway acquired some fine Haida carving was beyond repair. A new poles for its Prince Rupert and Jasper totem pole is being built on the stations. For 94 years, the Raven Queen Charlotte Islands and the Totem Pole was an important Jasper final touches will be done in Jasper landmark and a colourful reminder as part of an “Aboriginal Carver in of the community’s early railway his- Residence” public education event. tory. The original pole was built by a A totem pole raising ceremony and master carver in the Queen Charlotte a commemoration of Jasper’s local Islands sometime in the 1870s-80s. aboriginal history will take place in Jasper in the late summer or fall of Over the years, weather and other 2010. Take a look around to see if elements damaged the pole and it the new totem pole has arrived.