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	Yellowhead Pass
		Yellowhead Pass, elev 1133 m, crosses the continental divide between Alberta and BC, 25 km W of JASPER.
		The Miette R flows E from the pass to meet the Athabasca R at Jasper.
		Yellowhead Pass was first called Leather Pass, because the HBC obtained moose and caribou hides through the pass 1826-28; it was supposedly later named for a blond Iroquois trapper, Pierre Bostonais, nicknamed "Tête Jaune," who hunted and trapped in the area.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0008749 (172 words)

	Yellowhead Pass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Yellowhead Presbytery Thirty-five pastoral charges or mission fields within Yellowhead Presbytery ranging from a little south of Edmonton, north to Fort McMurray and across to the British Columbia border on the West.
		Yellowhead County Geographic and demographic information of the county which covers an area of six million acres and is host to farming, coal mining, industries such as forestry, oil and gas and also tourism.
		M.D. of Yellowhead Fire Department The department is based in Edson and serves the Municipal District of Yellowhead.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Yellowhead_Pass.html (487 words)

	Yellowhead Pass
		It is the lowest pass across the Rocky Mountains, almost 500 meters lower than the 1622 meter high Kicking Horse Pass used by the CPR to the south.
		Yellowhead Pass is the route used by the Canadian National Railway and the Yellowhead highway.
		Although Sir Sanford Fleming recommended the Yellowhead for the original Canadian Pacific Railway built in 1885, the CPR did not use the pass, and instead used the higher Kicking Horse Pass to the south to ensure no rival railway could be built further south.
	bivouac.com /FtrPg.asp?FtrId=475 (378 words)

	Yellowhead Pass - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Yellowhead Pass
		Pass on the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains; altitude 1,146 m/3760 ft. The Yellowhead Pass links the Jasper National Park in Alberta with the Robson Provincial Park in British Columbia, near the headwaters of the Fraser River.
		Used by Hudson's Bay Company traders in the 1820s as Leather Pass, it was later named after a blond Iroquois trapper nicknamed ‘Tête Jaune’, who stored his goods immediately west at Tête Jaune Cache, British Columbia.
		Although Yellowhead Pass was originally chosen by the Canadian Pacific Railway as the place where the country's first transcontinental railway line would cross the Rockies, it eventually built the line further south, at Kicking Horse Pass.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Yellowhead%20Pass (263 words)

	Rogers Pass a History of the Canadian Pacific Railway and Trans-Canada Highway crossing.
		The History of the Rogers Pass crossing of the Selkirk Mountains of B.C. Canada by the Canadian Pacific Railway and later by the Trans-Canada Highway.
		Early in 1885, ascending the Beaver Valley on the east flank of the Selkirk Mountains, the steel approached Rogers Pass.
		G Summit Monument Viewpoint is near the summit of Rogers Pass and affords an excellent vantage of the rugged scenery of the Selkirk Mountains.
	cdnrail.railfan.net /RogersPass/RogersPasstext.htm (4249 words)

	Yellowhead Pass
		From 1826 until the 1850s, the pass was occasionally used by the Hudson’s Bay Company to transport leather from the Saskatchewan District to New Caledonia.
		The fur traders who used this pass in the first half of the nineteenth century never called it, or any other mountain pass, a pass.
		Infrequently called the New Caledonia portage in the letters and journals of the period, the Yellowhead Pass was almost exclusively referred to as the route or portage via Tête Jaune Cache.
	www.spiralroad.com /sr/pn/y/yellowhead_pass.html (292 words)

	Mount Robson Provincial Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Moose, Yellowhead and Whitney Lakes, located along the Highway 16 corridor, each have a boat ramp and are suitable for canoeing and boating.
		Yellowhead Pass, the Yellowhead Highway, and Tete Jaune Cache (Tete Jaune is French for Yellow Head) are all named for Bostonnais who, although he was Native, was known for having unusually light hair.
		In the 1860s and 1870s, the Yellowhead Pass was surveyed as the most likely railway route through the Rocky Mountains, in order to link the British Columbian colonies with the rest of Canada.
	www.spacesfornature.org /greatspaces/mtrobson.html (1328 words)

	Pass Lister
		Pass Centric System In theory, the pass record could control everything, including the "Parent peak" and the prominence proof for the lower of the two peaks.
		The pass record would then need to specify two mountains in the pass record, one for each side of the pass.
		Instead, you must copy in the pass height by hand, and you must fill in the name of the parent peak into the subpeak.
	bivouac.com /PgxPg.asp?PgxId=217 (577 words)

	a Roster of Bicycling Passes
		Yellowhead Pass (1130m) low Rockies pass on the Yellowhead Highway to BC with an interesting history.
		In the case of marked, but unnamed summits, the pass is identified under the name of the most prominent canyon leading up to it, or by the road number and nearby towns.
		The pass is remarkable for its confusing geography.
	cyclepass.com /t_e_pass_roster.html (1870 words)

	Leather Pass
		From 1826 to 1853, the Hudson’s Bay Company intermittently used the Yellowhead Pass to transport leather and grease from the Saskatchewan District to New Caledonia, in the interior of present-day British Columbia.
		The pass was usually referred to as the route or portage via Tête Jaune Cache.
		The name “Leather Pass” appears to have been first used on an 1859 Arrowsmith map of British Columbia, the source of the name likely being the Royal Engineers, who were then conducting surveys in other parts of the colony.
	www.spiralroad.com /sr/pn/l/leather_pass.html (193 words)

	N.P. Ry. Ralph and the Rockies
		The general structure of the Rocky Mountains of the Mexican boundary northwesterly to Yellowhead Pass in Canada, a distance of 1,500 miles, is that of a continuous cordillera, with four regions of relatively low altitude.
		Between Mullan Pass (near the present city of Helena) and the Canadian boundary, a distance of two hundred miles, the Pacific Railroad Surveys reported no pass suitable for a railway, although Isaac I. Stevens, who headed the northern party, always thought there was one at the headwaters of the Marias River that had eluded him.
		The eastern approach to the pass is up the Athabasca river drainage on a 0.4 percent grade except for a short piece of 0.5 percent and thence down the west slope on a 0.7 percent grade in upper Fraser River waters.
	pw1.netcom.com /~whstlpnk/ralphbudd.html (9019 words)

	Yellowhead Pass -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It is believed that the pass is named for Pierre Bostonais (nicknamed "Tete Jaune", French for "Yellow head"), a (A half-breed of white and Indian parentage) Métis trapper employed as a guide by the (Click link for more info and facts about Hudson's Bay Company) Hudson's Bay Company.
		Bostonais led one of the first HBC expeditions to the interior of B.C. through the pass in 1820.
		The pass is now also traversed by the (Click link for more info and facts about Yellowhead Highway) Yellowhead Highway.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/y/ye/yellowhead_pass.htm (212 words)

	Jasper National Park - History - The Railway Survey Era
		He surveyed the pass for the possibility of a railway, wagon road and telegraph line going through to connect the new colonies in British Columbia with the rest of Canada.
		The survey for the railroad proceeded along the north side of the pass as the bluffs were not as steep as those on the south side.
		After the exploratory surveys between 1871 and 1880 the Yellowhead Pass was found to be the most acceptable pass.
	www.canadianrockies.net /railway.html (719 words)

	Grand Trunk Pacific Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The last spike ceremony heralding completion of the rail line across the prairies, and through the Rocky Mountains to the newly constructed seaport at Prince Rupert, British Columbia was held one mile east of Fort Fraser, British Columbia on April 7, 1914.
		The GTPR's high construction standards and the fact Yellowhead Pass has the lowest elevation of any railway crossing of the Continental Divide in North America gives the CN a competitive advantage in terms of fuel efficiency and the ability to haul tonnage.
		Prince Rupert is the primary marine-railway connection for the Alaska Railroad, and despite having languished as a poor cousin to the Port of Vancouver, there are many opportunities for this port city as a result of the GTPR's foresight a century ago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grand_Trunk_Pacific_Railway (575 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for pass
		Khyber Pass Mountain pass in the Safid Kuh range, on the frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan, linking the Kabul valley in Afghanistan (w) with Peshawar in Pakistan (e).
		Zeolites and associated minerals of the Wolf Creek pass area: mineral and Archuleta Counties Colorado.
		I-Pass Launches European Internet Roaming Strategy, Offering World's Largest Internet Roaming Network; European ISPs Now Provide Local Call Access to Customers in 38 Countries in the European Region and 150 Countries Worldwide.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=pass&StartAt=1 (631 words)

	Pine Pass - Peace River/Alaska Highway Tour
		Pine Pass, wholly contained in British Columbia, is the most northern and lowest of six highway passes through the Rockies.
		Two hundred miles to the southeast, Yellowhead Pass (elevation 3,711 feet) is shared by the Tete Jaune Cache to Jasper highway and the Canadian National Railway.
		The southern most pass is the Crowsnest (elevation 4,453 feet) which provides access for the Fernie to Lethbridge highway and the southern branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
	www.heritagebc.ca /kids/pine_pass.htm (261 words)

	Surveying - AlanMacek.com
		Northern Region, including the North Thompson River, the Yellowhead Pass and the Cariboo was under the direction of Roderick McLennan with two survey teams, 'Q' and 'R'.
		Cambie and John Trutch explored all the passes in the Coquihalla region.
		The primary objective was to complete a trial location survey from Bute Inlet to Yellowhead Pass via the Homathko River, to Prince George, and the upper Fraser River.
	canyon.alanmacek.com /index.php/Surveying (1059 words)

	Yellowhead Highway 5, British Columbia, Canada
		This southern stretch of Yellowhead Highway 5 follows the green-hued North Thompson River as it flows south through the forested hillsides and grasslands of the Thompson Plateau.
		The Yellowhead Pass (elevation 3,730 feet/1138 m), is 48 miles (77 km) east of Tete Jaune Cache on the British Columbia-Alberta border, and marks the border between Mount Robson Provincial Park and Jasper National Park.
		The Fishing Highway 24 from 97 Mile House in the Cariboo links with Yellowhead Highway 5 at Little Fort, and Yellowhead Highway 16 links with Yellowhead Highway 5 at Tete Jaune Cache (north of Valemount), bringing traffic from Jasper National Park in Alberta to the east and from Prince George to the west.
	www.britishcolumbia.com /regions/towns/?townID=3951 (297 words)

	Red Pass Junction
		A B.C. Provincial Police Barracks was built at Red Pass due to the transient nature of construction crews and the illegal transport of liquor; at the time the railway was the only means of transportation.
		Several Japanese Internment Camps existed throughout the Yellowhead Pass in 1942; the camp at Red Pass became a Road Construction Camp.
		Red Pass is a special place for me; today all the buildings are gone save the old generator shack at the Mile 44 bridge and a boxcar on the grounds of the old store site.
	www.wcra.org /features/red-pass-junction.htm (662 words)

	Ministry of Environment - Mount Robson
		Yellowhead Mountain Trail: Named after Pierre Bostonais (Tete Jaune), an Iroquois guide who worked for the North West and Hudson’s Bay fur trading companies in the early 1800s, Yellowhead Mountain remains, to this day, the guardian of the Yellowhead Pass.
		The pass not only marks the border between Alberta and British Columbia but is the subtle spine that separates the Pacific and Arctic watersheds.
		Mount Fitzwilliam Trail: In 1863, while camped on the shores of Yellowhead Lake, Walter Butler Cheadle and William Wentworth Fitzwilliam otherwise known as Viscount Milton, gazed upon the "cone-like and terraced" mountain to the south and decided to name it Mount Fitzwilliam, after Milton’s title, Viscount Milton of Fitzwilliam.
	www.env.gov.bc.ca /bcparks/explore/parkpgs/mt_robs/eastend.html (1293 words)

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		The Yellowhead Pass, along with the Kicking Horse Pass near Lake Louise, make up the lifelines of Canada’s extensive railway system and thus form a crucial role in linking the country together.
		The second lowest pass along the Continental Divide, Yellowhead Pass was probably named for a blonde Iroquois guide whose nickname was “Tete Jaune”.
		The Yellowhead Pass is the border between Alberta and British Columbia, and just to the west, you’ll find the headwaters of one of British Columbia’s most important rivers, the mighty Fraser.
	www.zeelinx.com /DetailsC4L1355T9M8S6.aspx?BT=ROAD (147 words)

	Tete Jaune Cache, British Columbia, Canada
		The pass was once known as Leather Pass because of the large quantities of moose hides transported through the pass.
		Driving the Yellowhead through this area affords spectacular views of the Rocky Mountains to the east and the Cariboo Mountains to the west, with many long stretches between towns as the road cuts through gorges and thickly forested bear country.
		There are four major mountain passes, Yellowhead (1,146 m), Sunwapta (2,035 m), Kicking Horse (1,647 m) and Rogers Pass (1,330 m), in addition to the climb to Bow Summit, the highest point along the route at 2,068 metres.
	www.britishcolumbia.com /regions/towns/?townID=3991 (2345 words)

	Bicycle Touring the Yellowhead Highway
		The Yellowhead Highway (Highway 16) opened in August 1970 and is the newest of the Trans-Canada highways, stretching from the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia to Winnipeg, Manitoba.
		Hazelton to Houston (143 K) Leaving Hazelton, the Yellowhead continues through beautiful contryside to the Moricetown Canyon, where you may be lucky enough to watch Indians balance on the river rocks to spear salmon.
		Red Pass is about 17 K down the road and after that the road is pretty level for the next 30 K along Moose Lake and the upper Fraser River.
	www.users.bigpond.com /RandyMiller/yellowhead.htm (1983 words)

	Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Rotary Club of Prince George - Yellowhead was chartered in 1977, the second of four Rotary Clubs in British Columbia's "Northern Capital"...
		The Yellowhead Club's name and logo was inspired by the scenic Yellowhead Pass through the Rocky Mountains, and the
		Yellowhead Rotary is part of District 5040 and the world-wide magic of Rotary International.
	www.yellowheadrotary.ca (300 words)

	OzCanTravel! Welcome! Canada Master Page
		Yellowhead — in the Footsteps of the Overlanders
		Just east of the turnoff to Lucerne provincial campground and 1 km north of the highway is access to the Yellowhead Trail, a 4 km round-trip climb through deciduous forest to a small bench on the side of Yellowhead Mountain.
		During the heyday of railroad construction, it was the head of the Fraser River for paddle wheelers.
	members.shaw.ca /ozcantravel/canada3.htm (1531 words)

	Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Rotary Club of Prince George - Yellowhead was chartered in 1977, the second of four Rotary Clubs in British Columbia's "Northern Capital"...
		The Yellowhead Club's name and logo was inspired by the scenic Yellowhead Pass through the Rocky Mountains, and the
		Yellowhead Rotary is part of District 5040 and the world-wide magic of Rotary International.
	www.yellowheadrotary.ca /index.html (300 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of National Historic Sites of Canada
		The Kicking Horse Pass (elevation 1627 m) is a mountain pass across the continental divide of the Canadian Rockies near the border between Alberta and British Columbia, and lying within Yoho and Banff National Parks.
		Rogers Pass is the pass (elevation 1330 m) through the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia used by the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Trans-Canada Highway.
		The Lachine Canal in 1920 The Lachine Canal is a canal passing through the southwestern part of the Island of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, through the boroughs of Lachine on land originally granted by the King of France to the Sulpician Order.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-National-Historic-Sites-of-Canada (3129 words)

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