Jasper House
Jasper House National Historic Site, in Jasper National Park, Alberta, is the second site of a trading post on the Athabasca River that functioned from 1813 to 1884 as a major staging and supply post for travel through the Canadian Rockies.Photo: Themeancanadian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pocahontas.
Pocahontas
Locality
Pocahontas is a former coal mining community in Improvement District No. 12 within Alberta's Rockies. It is on Highway 16, approximately 38 km northeast of Jasper, at the junction that provides access to Miette Hot Springs. Pocahontas is situated 7 km northeast of Jasper House.
Jasper House
- Type: Ruins
- Description: human settlement in Improvement District No. 12 (Jasper National Park), Alberta, Canada
- Categories: trading post and historic site
- Location: Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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Latitude
53.14689° or 53° 8′ 49″ northLongitude
-117.98411° or 117° 59′ 3″ westOpen location code
955442W8+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
node 5108529236OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruinsWikidata ID
Q6163971
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Persian—“Jasper House” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “জেসপার হাউজ”
- French: “Jasper House”
- Persian: “جسپر هاوس”
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