Victoria Cross Mountains Honor Alberta Heroes | Jasper Canadian Rockies

From the top of the Jasper SkyTram, Moustached Mountain Guide Norm Bergen introduces five of Alberta’s World War I heroes who were awarded the Victoria Cross, and the mountains named in their honor.

Images: Moustached Mountain Guide, Canadian Department of National Defence, Library and Archives Canada, Alberta Culture and Tourism, R.V. Rasmussen http://raysweb.net, Traveller100, www.vconline.org.uk, Canadian War Museum, Arghya1999, Royal Canadian Legion Branch 8, Summit Search

For more about these brave men:

John Chipman Kerr
Service file: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discove...
Biography: http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-d...

Cecil John Kinross
Service file: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discove...
Biography: http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-d...

George Burdon McKean
Service file:https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discove...
Biography: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id...

John George Pattison
Service file: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discove...
Biography: http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-d...

Raphael Louis Zengel
Service file: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discove...
Biography: http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-d...

For more on the Victoria Cross Mountain Range:
https://albertashistoricplaces.com/20...
https://peakvisor.com/range/victoria-...
http://www.peakfinder.com/ranges/62
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victori...