Jasper foodies, start your appetites. With the launch of Jasper Food Tours earlier this spring, owner and entrepreneur Estelle Blanchette is waving the green flag for the commencement of culinary cruising in Jasper. Jasper Food Tours started with beers and game meatloaf at The Jasper Brewing Co. // ...

This story was originally published by The Jasper Local in 2014 Nine months ago, Jasper’s Margo Bereska knew she had to go to Hawaii. She didn’t know why, or for how long. She just knew she had to go. “I have to follow my heart,” she said at the time. “I don’t get the details. I just get the hits.” ...

It was 1993. May. The almost two-month long siege at Waco Texas had just ended in terrible massacre; the siege of Sarajevo by the Bosnian Serbs was into its second year. The following month would see TVs final episode of Cheers and rave reviews for blockbuster movie Jurassic Park. There was no fanfa...

Downstairs at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge, tucked away in the hotel’s east wing, not far from the entrance to the staff cafeteria lies a portal to an experience unlike any other in Jasper. An ornately designed curtain covers a small entryway (watch your head!). Cross the threshold and you are in ...

The Jasper Yellowhead Museum and Archives is hoping a new exhibit will become the bedrock of the institution. The museum is planning to create a geological education area, a permanent showpiece which will pay tribute to a Canadian geologist who conducted much of his field work in Jasper National Par...

When Dwain Gilzene came to Canada from Jamaica, he had $40 to his name. He was 25-years-old, had never been out of his home country and was hoping that by following his sister to Jasper, he’d be able to create a better life for himself and his daughter. Because he was relocating halfway across the w...

My last thought before falling asleep after a long, cold day on the trail was “heaven is a lasagna of sleeping bags.” At least that’s what my last thought was supposed to be. Instead, as I zipped myself into three layers of down-lined, thermal quilts, supported by two air mattresses in a finally-war...

Back in Jack Pugh’s day, there was no such thing as lycra or carbon fibre. Ski bindings tightened with lugs and cables, and after you climbed up a mountain with 215 cm wooden skis on your “bedroom slipper” lace-up boots, you wrapped your seal hide skins around your waist to descend. Jack will be 90 ...

If Alberta’s beer industry was a batch of microbrew, in 2005, when the Jasper Brew Pub opened its doors, the batch’s barley would have had scarcely made it to the mill. Today, not only has the mash been converted, the yeast been added to the wort and the beer been filtered, carbonated and cellared, ...

The Jasper Folk Music Festival is singing a new tune these days. The festival, which was cancelled last year for a lack of a suitable location, is in talks with the Municipality of Jasper to host the event on the yet-to-be-named Exchange Lands. “So far everything is on course,” said vice-chairperson...