Kakwa Wildland Park is an Alberta provincial park just east of the border with British Columbia at the 120th meridian west. The park is home to Alberta’s tallest waterfall, the Kakwa Falls, which is 30 metres tall.

It adjoins Willmore Wilderness Park and British Columbia’s Kakwa Provincial Park and Protected Area and together with them comprises Kakwa Willmore Interprovincial Park, the first interprovincial park shared between BC and Alberta.

Named in association with Kakwa River.

Kakwa-Willmore Interprovincial Park was designated through an agreement between the Alberta and British Columbia governments in April 2006.  The park includes Kakwa Wildland Provincial Park and Willmore Wilderness Park on the Alberta side and Kakwa Provincial Park in B.C. 

The interprovincial park recognizes that the three parks share common mountain and foothills ecosystems and that cross-border visitation is common.  Staff from the two province governments work together on park planning, resource and visitor management, and other activities that benefit both the park’s ecosystems and visitors.

West Twin Protected Area established in 2001, containing approximately 9134 hectares.

Baseball field on Main Street near train station.

Adopted in 1982 as submitted by Northwood Pulp & Timber Ltd. The name “oog” goes back to the Indian history of the area, and represents a legendary being, according to Northwood.

Adopted in 1997 as proposed by J.O. Premischook and endorsed by area Parks and Regional District representatives.

Named after Barkerville-area fixture Francis (Frank) Arthur Cushman [1924 – 1994]. Cushman was at Yakima, Washington, and served with the US Marine Corp in WW II before moving to BC with his family in 1955. After ranching at Nicola and Stump Lakes, he purchased the Cariboo Hunting & Fishing Lodge on Bowron Lake in 1961, and later operated Wolverine Mountain Outfitters in the vicinity of this mountain.

He is remembered as one of Barkerville‘s most colourful characters, playing the role of Ned Stout, Bavarian placer miner, in street vignettes. With a rugged face and handlebar moustache, Cushman’s was one of the most photographed faces in BC, appearing in hundreds of magazines and calendars over the years (although I haven’t been able to find one).

If you have a map of Jasper Park you will see a Pass called Elysium Pass, along the Pyramid range, and lies North west of Jasper. Curlie lost his life in the slide that came down North of the Pass on the waters of the Snaring River.

— Letter from Bert Wilkins to James Monroe Thorington [1895–1989], April 10, 1938

Wilkins was refering to the death of Donald “Curly” Phillips [1884–1938].