The Yellow Head Pass - Highway 16, Jasper, British Columbia - British Columbia Heritage Markers on Waymarking.com

This board commemorating a historic site is located 9 km west of Jasper on Highway 16, Jasper National Park of Canada, British Columbia, Canada

The Yellowhead Pass is a mountain pass across the Continental Divide of the Americas in the Canadian Rockies. It is located on the provincial boundary between the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, and lies within Jasper National Park and Mount Robson Provincial Park.
Topological map of the proposed, never-built Canadian Pacific Railway line from East Selkirk to Kamloops, passing through the Yellowhead Pass.

Due to its modest elevation of 1,131 m (3,711 ft) and its gradual approaches, the pass was recommended by Sir Sandford Fleming as a route across the Rocky Mountains for the planned Canadian Pacific Railway. This proposal was rejected in favour of a more direct and southerly route through the more difficult Kicking Horse Pass, opened in 1886. However, both the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern Railways used the Yellowhead Pass for their main lines built circa 1910–1913, and the main line of their successor, the Canadian National Railway, still follows the route. Via Rail's premier passenger train, the Canadian, uses the CN tracks as does the Jasper – Prince Rupert train and the Jasper section of the Rocky Mountaineer. The pass is now also traversed by the Yellowhead Highway.

Source: Wikipedia

Inscription on the board:

YELLOWHEAD PASS

Named after "Tete Jaune', blond
fur trader at jasper House, this
low pass was favoured by Sanford
Fleming in his railway surveys
of the 1870's. Rejected by the
C.P.R., the route was later used
by Grand Trunk Pacificand
Canadia Northern Pacific;
the union of these helped form
the CN. Today's highway tracesthe
route of this historic pathway
through the Rockies.

Province of
British Columbia
1967

Type of Marker: Geographical / Natural History Type of Sign: Historic Site or Building Marker Describe the parking that is available nearby: a roadside pullout What Agency placed the marker?: Province of British Columbia

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