Jasper, Alberta
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Jasper is a specialized municipality and townsite in western Alberta within the Canadian Rockies. The townsite is in the Athabasca River valley and is the commercial centre of Jasper National Park.
View of Jasper from the Jasper Tramway
The Jasper Information Centre
The Jasper Welcome Sign at the north entrance to town, 2022.
Downtown Jasper in 2002
Jasper National Park
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Jasper National Park, in Alberta, Canada, is the largest national park within Alberta's Rocky Mountains, spanning 11,000 km2. It was established as Jasper Forest Park in 1907, renamed as a national pa
Jasper, Alberta
…municipality and townsite in western Alberta within the Canadian Rockies. The townsite is in the Athabasca River valley and is the commercial centre of Jasper National Park. 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…
Mount Andromeda in Jasper National Park
Paul Kane's sketch of Jasper House in November 1846.
The Jasper Park Information Centre, originally constructed in 1914 as an administration building and as the park superintendent's residence
CNR advertisement, 1929