November 4. 1846
Jasper's House consists of only three miserable log huts. The dwelling-house is composed of two rooms, of about fourteen or fifteen feet square each. One of them is used by all comers and goers: Indians, voyageurs, and traders, men, women, and children being huddled together indiscriminately...
...This post is only kept up for the purpose of supplying horses to parties crossing the mountains. I made a sketch of the establishment.
- Paul Kane
Dominion surveyor, Charles Horetzky photographed Jasper House in1872. He took the first photographs of the Athabasca Valley
Would you like to see what remained 111 years
later in 1983 ?
Although the monument
was not found at the site, highway travellers can stop and read about Jasper House
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