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Jasper-Yellowhead Museum and Archives

The Jasper-Yellowhead Museum & Archives is dedicated to collect, preserve and make available for research and exhibition documents and artefacts which illustrate the human history of Jasper National Park and the Yellowhead Corridor.

The Archives’ holdings include: a library of historic books, periodicals and pamphlets pertaining to the human and natural history of the region and more than 20 metres of manuscripts, personal and business papers, diaries and memoirs. The archives has thousands of negatives, prints, albums and transparencies.

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The Jasper-Yellowhead Archives welcomes inquiries by telephone and e-mail but if you would like to do research in person, please contact us in advance to make an appointment. Many of our photographs have been digitized and can be purchased in .jpg or .tiff format.

The Archives is open to the public by appointment in the basement of the Jasper-Yellowhead Museum at 400 Bonhomme Street, Jasper, Alberta. 

Contact us:
400 Bonhomme St.
P.O. Box 42
Jasper, Alberta
T0E1E0
780-852-3013
archives@jaspermuseum.org

Some of our digitized photographs are available to view through the Archives Society of Alberta’s Alberta On Record:

https://www.albertaonrecord.ca/jasper-yellowhead-museum-and-archives

To purchase any of these images please contact us with the photo number and we will be happy to sell you a copy.


Donations
If you would like to donate any items to the Jasper-Yellowhead Museum & Archives please contact the Collections Manager at collections@jaspermuseum.org

Features From Our
Archives

The Jasper-Yellowhead Museum & Archives strives to share Jasper’s history with the world. This features section will allow us to showcase stories and photographs from the archives. We hope you will enjoy a small sampling of our extensive collection.

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The archives’ holdings include historic books, periodicals and pamphlets pertaining to the human and natural history of the region. The photographic holdings includes thousands of items in the form of negatives, prints, albums and transparencies. We hope you will enjoy this small sample from our collection.

Children at Henry House Flats. [ca. 1950]
Columbia Icefields Chalet. [ca. 1950]
Jasper High School Photo Club Shirley Anderson, Evelyn Hargreaves, Margie Hargreaves, Donna Campbell, Arleen Blacklock, Rae Milligan, Wilma Johnson, Marilyn McGuire, Mavis Oldfield and Joan McNeilly. [ca. 1945]
John Percy Sollitt photo of Jasper sign across from the Perrier block on Connaught Drive. [ca. 1930]
Cyril Wates party at Maccarib warden cabin. 1927
Noreen McLellan and friends at Medicine Lake. [ca. 1945]
Taylor postcard of Connaught Drive. [ca. 1950]
Taylor postcard of Connaught Drive. [ca. 1950]
Morris Taylor photo of Airplane at Amethyst Lake. 1933
Miette Hot Springs [ca. 1925]
Pyramid Hotel and Chaba Theatre. [1945]
Jasper Town [ca. 1925]
Perrier Block on Connaught Dr. [ca. 1940]
100 block of Miette Avenue. [1927]
Ski Party on Cavell Road.
Spero's store and dance hall. [1955]
Jasper Public School [1955]
Hap Riley and others on the railway platform. [1943]
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Jasper-Yellowhead Museum and Archives
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Land Acknowledgement

We respectfully acknowledge that Jasper National Park is located in Treaty 6 and 8 as well as the traditional lands of the Anishinabe, Aseniwuche Winewak, Dene-zaa, Nêhiyawak, Secwépemc, Stoney Nakoda, Mountain Métis and Métis. We acknowledge the past, present, and future generations of these nations who continue to steward the land.

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Our Thanks

We here at The Jasper-Yellowhead Historical Society gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Alberta Museums Association in funding the Collection Deaccession and Storage Reorganization project.