Downtown Jasper Alberta Mountains

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. 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 trad…
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. 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" and Fort Vancouver on the lower Columbia River. Jasper House was 35 km north of today's town of Jasper.
  • Elevation: 1,060 m (3,480 ft)
  • Country: Canada
  • Province: Alberta
  • Region: Alberta's Rockies
  • Census division: 15
  • Founded: 1813
  • Postal code span: T0E

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