Yoho National Park lies in the Canadian Rockies of eastern British Columbia, next to Banff and Kootenay national parks. It began as a reserve around Mount Stephen in 1886, after the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway across the Kicking Horse Pass, and the name Yoho comes from a Cree expression of awe. The park includes Takakkaw Falls, one of the highest waterfalls in Canada, the glacial Emerald Lake, and the Burgess Shale, a fossil bed of the Cambrian period that holds exceptionally well-preserved soft-bodied animals from more than 500 million years ago. The railway's Spiral Tunnels are also in the park. It is part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site.
Before and after
- 27 March 1886Birth of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- 4 May 1886Haymarket affair
- 31 July 1886Death of Franz Liszt
- 9 September 1886Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
- 10 October 1886Establishment of Yoho National Park
- 16 October 1886Birth of David Ben-Gurion
- 18 November 1886Death of Chester A. Arthur
- 8 December 1886Birth of Diego Rivera
- 1887Michelson–Morley experiment
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