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History Byte, January 23, 2020

My name is Sheila Willis of Impact Tourism, the developer of the History Check App.

Welcome History Bytes, your daily dose of Alberta HIstory Trivia. Brought to you in partnership with Belt Drive Betty Media and the Candian Motorcycle Tourism Association.

You can Register to answer the questions for a shot to win prizes or just take the quiz to satisfy your own brain power! Either way, we are excited to see how much of Alberta’s History you really know!

Yesterday's question was:
The sign for Highway 16 in Alberta displays a yellow head because:

They wanted it to be visible in the dark
To recognize an explorer named Pierre
To match the yellow line.

If you answered B) you would be correct. To recognize a guy named Pierre, also known as Tete Jaune. Pierre was an Iroquois trapper, trader and explorer, who happened to have blond hair, or in French Tete Juane - yellow head.

His other names were Pierre Bostanais or Pierre Hastination. Because I sound things out phonetically and butcher words, I am going to call him Pierre.

In the 18th and 19th centuries Pierre worked with both the North West Company and the Hudson’s Bay. And in 1819 led a brigade of Hudson’s Bay men through the pass that would later bear his name - the Yellowhead pass.

The Hudson’s Bay Company used the Yellowhead for brief periods from the mid 1820’s to the early 1950’s to transport leather and especially moose hides from the Saskatchewan District to New Caledonia, which back in the day was a fur trading area in the North Central area of what we now know as B.C.

Eventually the pass would become part of the routes of Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern, now the CNR, Railway Routes and later still part of the major highway crossing the Rocky mountains - or the Yellowhead Highway which runs from Winnipeg to the Coast of BC.
If it is your route in Alberta there is plenty to see and do along the highway from Elk Island National Park in the east to Jasper and area in the west.

Diptheria serum was delivered to Ft. Vermilion in 1929 by:
Airplane
Train
Motor car

Come back tomorrow for the answer and the story that goes along with it.
Then we will load you up with the next question.. Enjoy!

CREDITS:

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%AA...

Alberta Jasper.com
http://albertajasper.com/Jasper-Alber...

Provincial Archives of Alberta

Glenbow Museum & Archives

Research:
Timeline: Prehistory - Aboriginal people have been aware of this pass for centuries. Its low elevation makes it an important prehistoric travel route.

Jasper Alberta Yellowhead Pass Historical Timeline:

1825 - James Macmillan and Pierre Bostonais began surveying the pass to determine the feasibility of using it as a route to transport leather to New Caledonia.

1826 - Sir George Simpson orders Yellowhead Pass to be used as the route to carry dressed leather from the Saskatchewan district to New Caledonia.

1853 - Yellowhead Pass falls into steady disuse after shipping from Fort Victoria becomes the preferred mode of transportation for furs west of the continental divide.

1859-1863 - Many parties of "Overlanders" use this Jasper pass while en route to the Cariboo goldfields in British Columbia.

1872 - The pass is chosen by Sir Sanford Fleming as a route for the Canadian Pacific Railway, but is later rejected in favour of the Kicking Horse Pass route.

November, 1911 - Grand Trunk Pacific Railway construction reaches Jasper Alberta's now known Yellowhead Pass. Regular freight service was available August, 1914, with passenger service following in September.

December, 1913 - Canadian Northern Railway track is laid through Yellowhead Pass. Due to delays in construction of bridges and trestles, the railway line to the border with British Columbia did not open until 1915.

1923 - The Grand Trunk Pacific becomes part of Canadian National Railways. Canadian Northern had been absorbed by Canadian National in 1917. The CNR would continue to operate this national railway through Yellowhead Pass from that day forward.

1970 - The Yellowhead Inter-Provincial Highway is officially opened. It would later be known as the Trans-Canada Yellowhead Highway 16.

1971 - The importance of Jasper Alberta's Yellowhead Pass as a travel corridor receives official recognition. It is designated as national historic site and commemorated with a historical plaque.

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