Jasper (Alberta)
Jasper is a settlement within the Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada at the confluence of the Miette River with the Athabasca River. Throughout its history, this village was under the name of Jasper 's House as a trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Location
Jasper is located in Jasper National Park near the border between the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta at an altitude of 1062 m. The municipality can be reached from the west and the east via the Yellowhead Highway ( Alberta Highway 16) and from the south via the Icefields Parkway ( Alberta Highway 93).
The town of Jasper has an area of 5 km ², while the Specialized Jasper municipality has an area of 925.5 km ².
By Jasper also carries a railway line. The transcontinental long-distance train The Canadian Jasper connects it with Vancouver and Edmonton Saskatoon Winnipeg Toronto and the rest of the rail network in North America. In addition, the station of Jasper is also the starting point of distance train in the direction of Prince George -Prince Rupert. The trains name The Skeena since 2009 leads this train, not more, because at that time of VIA Rail Canada, almost all trains name has been removed, but the train will continue. Both trains are operated by VIA Rail Canada and are particularly popular with tourists.
Jasper is 287 km from Banff ( Alberta), 362 km from Edmonton ( Alberta), 414 km from Calgary ( Alberta) and 863 km from Vancouver ( British Columbia) away.
Population
According to the census of 2011, the town of Jasper has a population of 3,560, and the Specialized municipality of 4,051 inhabitants one.
The influx of people to Jasper is highly regulated by the Canadian Park Service. In Jasper only may such persons are domiciled, the gainful employment. The acquisition of real estate is similar highly regulated and ruled for foreigners.
Climate
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- - 7.8 ° C / 17.8 ° C
- - 0.6 ° C / -12.2 ° C
- 3.2 ° C / - 8.6 ° C
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- 15.6 ° C / 1.7 ° C
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- 16.4 ° C / 3.2 ° C
- 10.3 ° C / - 1.0 ° C
- 0.7 ° C / - 8.5 ° C
- - 4.9 ° C / -13.6 ° C
- 2.4 mm / 38.1 mm
- 2.2 mm / 21.7 mm
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- 24.2 mm / 5.4 mm
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- 5.4 mm / 32.7 mm
History
The first historical tradition of visit paid the surveyor David Thompson from the Athabasca Valley in 1810. The North West Company in 1813 set up a supply depot on Brule Lake a, a branch of the time was given the name " Jasper House ", named after the employees of the North West Company, Jasper Hawes.
The biography of Jasper Hawes is apparently only fragmentarily known. He came from Missouri and was probably married to a Ureinwohnerin. The two had a daughter named Genevieve, as well as other children. A contract with the Hudson's Bay Company from 1817 there appears to have in their archive.
The item has been conducted from 1813 to 1817 by François Decoigne. 1829 moved Michael Klyne trading post at the confluence of the Athabasca and Snake Indian River. Under the name Michael Cline, he led the station from 1825 to 1835, but he was already working for the Hudson's Bay Company from 1798. According to him, the Mount Cline is named, as well as the Cline River.
He signed his contract on February 22, 1798 before the Notary Chaboillez in Montreal, first for Nepigon on Lake Superior. Michael Klyne was of Dutch descent and born in 1781 or 1783. To 1807, he married the Metis woman Suzanne Lafrance, who was himself born in the Northwest Territories, 1790. 1822-23 he worked as an interpreter in the Lesser Slave Lake District. As Governor Simpson on October 10, 1824 reached Jasper House, he was employed there, as well as on his return on 27 April 1825. Klyne worked as a laborer, canoe builders, house servants, interpreters, fishermen and postmaster. From the Council of the Northern Department, he was appointed as Head of the 1829-34 Jasper House, then moved with his large family to the Red River. Jane, one of his daughters married the Chief Factor Archibald McDonald. ( Minutes of Council Northern Department of Rupert's Land, 1821-31. The Hudson Bay Record Society, 1940, pp. 443-444 ).
With the decline of the fur trade Jasper House was abandoned in 1884. The Canadian government established in this region 1907 on an area of approximately 13,000 km ² to " Jasper Forest Park ". By the year 1911, the railway line of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway to Fitzhugh Station, the present station Jasper was extended. 1928 a road from Jasper to Edmonton was opened. 1930 " Jasper Forest Park " was officially renamed " Jasper National Park".
Management
The community of Jasper is unique in that it lies completely within a national park. The administration of the municipality share the six-member City Council with the mayor elected in equal parts with the Canadian Nature Park Administration.