Jasper National Park is the largest national park in the Canadian Rockies, in the province of Alberta. It was first set aside as a forest reserve and became a national park, and it takes its name from Jasper Hawes, a fur trader of the North West Company. Its landscapes include the Columbia Icefield and Athabasca Glacier, Maligne Lake and Canyon and Mount Edith Cavell, and it shelters elk, bighorn sheep and grizzly bears. The park is part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site, inscribed in 1984, and it has a dark sky preserve. The Icefields Parkway links it to Banff National Park. In July 2024 a large wildfire destroyed about a third of the buildings in the town of Jasper.
Before and after
- 7 July 1907Birth of Robert A. Heinlein
- 24 July 1907Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907
- from August 1907 to March 1909British Antarctic Expedition (1907–1909)
- 31 August 1907British-Russian Convention
- 14 September 1907Establishment of Jasper National Park
- 17 October 1907Founding of Atalanta BC
- from 14 November 1907 to 30 November 19071907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition
- 14 November 1907Birth of Astrid Lindgren
- 15 December 1907Birth of Oscar Niemeyer
More in Earth & climate
- 10 October 1886Establishment of Yoho National Park
- 1887Establishment of Tongariro National Park
- 25 September 1890Establishment of Sequoia National Park
- 22 March 1907Establishment of Etosha National Park
- 28 December 19081908 Messina earthquake
- 6 June 1912Eruption of Novarupta
The era
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