Map from Grand Trunk Pacific timetable, August 1919. Stovel Co., Winnipeg
Bohi, Canadian National’s Western Depots, p. 50
Oddly, does not include Dunster, but does include Raush Valley and Eddy.
The Canadian Northern Railway’s (CNoR) owned subsidiary running between the Alberta–British Columbia border and Vancouver was formally called the Canadian Northern Pacific Railway, but there were no cars or locomotives lettered “Canadian Northern Pacific”. As far as the public and most workers were concerned, it was just a part of the CNoR.
The Canadian Northern Pacific was incorporated in 1910. The last spike was driven at Basque, British Columbia, near Ashcroft, in January 1915. This event completed Canada’s third transcontinental railway, which ran from Quebec City to Vancouver.
The line from Edmonton to Vancouver was approved for operation in October 1915. The first westbound passenger train left Edmonton on November 23, 1915. The first eastbound passenger train left Vancouver on November 25, 1915. Initial main line through service was three trains per week in each direction.
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Rand McNally railway map [detail], 1925
Association with Dome Mountain.
Jasper House East Side Rocky Mountains
Paul Kane. Field sketch, November 7, 1847 Wikipedia
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‘Jasper House.’ Outlying trading huts of the Hudson Bay Company, near foot of the Leatherhead Pass, Rocky’s. Graves of Company’s Servants, murdered by Indian [1872] [1]
Jasper House and Roche Miette, Sandford Fleming expedition. Photo: Charles Horetzky, 1872 [2]
Jasper House. A “bush inn,” or stopping-place, where meals are served at two shillings per time. R. C. W. Lett photo, ca. 1911 Talbot, Making Good in Canada, p. 103 [accessed 15 February 2025][3]
The situation of Jaspers House is beautifully Wild and romantic, on the borders of the Athabasca River which here spreads itself out into a small Lake surrounded by Lofty Mountains. This is a temporary summer post for the convenience of the Columbians in crossing; the Winter Establishment of last Year on the borders of the Smoky River about 80 to 100 miles Northward, but it was this Season determined that it should be removed to Moose or Cranberry Lake situated more in the heart of the Mountain near the height of Land and where we suppose Frazers River takes its source; the object of this is to draw the Freemen further into the Mountain than they have been in the habit of gound, where they are expected to make good hunts as it has been rarely Wrought and thereby the lower parts of Smoky river and the Country they used to occupy towards Lesser Slave Lake will be allowed to recruit, we have it likewise in view to draw the Shewhoppes or natives of the North Branch of Thompsons river to the mountain from the Establishmnent of Kamloops or Thompsons River which they have hitherto frequented as that post on account of the heavy Establishment of people required for the purpose of defence yields little or no profit. [4]
Interlaken was between Jasper House and Henry House on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Possibly situated between Jasper Lake and Talbot Lake.
Bohi records it as being in Edson Division, Pocahontas Branch, of the
Canadian National Railway, originally a Type E Depot (Plan100-152) built by the GTP in 1913. Abandoned on site in 1921; turned over to Parks Department in 1923, for use as base for Park fire rangers.
(Interlaken is a resort town located between two lakes in the mountainous Bernese Oberland region of central Switzerland, the home town of guides Edouard Feuz, Jr., and Gottfried Feuz, who worked in Canada.)
On the 1912 map of Mount Robson by Arthur Oliver Wheeler [1860–1945] and a Grand Trunk Pacific Railway map from around 1912 there is an “Albreda” station between Tête Jaune Cache and Mount Robson.
The current Albreda railway point is on the North Thompson River.
