Jasper Journey – Icefield of Yesteryore

Climb Ev’ry Mountain / Peggy Wood
from The Sound of Music / Rogers and Hammerstein

The Columbia Icefield

The Icefields as they are today.

Coast Publishing Co (Publisher) . Athabasca Glacier and Columbia Icefield Chalet, Banff – Jasper highway, Canadian Rockies. Vancouver: Coast Publishing Co., Vancouver, B.C, cca. 1920.

Harmon Byron (Photographer) . Columbia Icefields. Banff: Photographed and Copyrighted by Byron Harmon, Banff, Canada, [before 1942].

Six-Hundred Lovat Scouts trained during the Second World War on the Athabasca Glacier in 1944. Yellowhead-Museum and Archives.

Finally we arrive at our modern Icefield conveyance:
The ICE EXPLORER!

Next … To the ICE !

Tags: Columbia Icefields, Jasper, Jasper National Park, Jasper Posters, Jasper the Bear, Maligne Lake, Tangle Creek, Tangle Falls, The Columbia Icefields, The Rockies

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Categories Columbia Icefields, Jasper, Jasper Posters, Jasper the Bear, Maligne Lake, Tangle Creek, Tangle Falls, The Rockies

2 Responses to “Jasper Journey – Icefield of Yesteryore”

John Charet September 24, 2019 at 5:42 pm #

Such beautiful pictures 🙂 Anyway, keep up the great work as always 🙂

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- jcalberta September 24, 2019 at 9:08 pm #
  
  Had a tuff time with that post. A lot of work. Thanks John.
  
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