Wednesday 16 October 2019

Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks

The Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks are comprised of Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho national parks and Mount Robson, Mount Assiniboine and Hamber provincial parks

Lake Louise and Chateau Lake Louise
This postcard was sent by Jason

Lake Louise, named Lake of the Little Fishes by the Stoney Nakota First Nations people, is a glacial lake within Banff National Park in AlbertaCanada.
The emerald colour of the water comes from rock flour carried into the lake by melt-water from the glaciers that overlook the lake.


Lake Louise
This postcard was sent by Lisa

Fairmont's Chateau Lake Louise, one of Canada's grand railway hotels, is located on Lake Louise's eastern shore. It is a luxury resort hotel built in the early decades of the 20th century by the Canadian Pacific Railway. - in: wikipedia

Mount Edith Cavell in Jasper National Park
This postcard with three great stamps of the great Leonard Cohen was sent by Jason

Jasper National Park is the largest national park in the Canadian Rockies, spanning 11,000 km2 (4,200 sq mi). It is located in the province of Alberta, north of Banff National Park and west of Edmonton. The park contains the glaciers of the Columbia Icefieldspringslakeswaterfalls and mountains.

Mount Edith Cavell is a mountain located in the Athabasca River and Astoria River valleys of Jasper National Park, and the most prominent peak entirely within Alberta.
The mountain was named in 1916 for Edith Cavell, an English nurse executed by the Germans during World War I for having helped Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium to the Netherlands, in violation of German military law.[1] It was previously known as Mount Fitzhugh. - in: wikipedia

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