Henry House National Historic Event
Jasper National Park of Canada, Alberta
original HSMBC plaque
(© Parks Canada Agency / Agence Parcs Canada)
Address :
Highway 16 and 93A, 1km northeast of intersection, Jasper National Park of Canada, Alberta
Recognition Statute:
Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date:
1926-05-22
Other Name(s):
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Henry House
(Designation Name)
Research Report Number:
1968-29, 2005-113, SDC-CED 2005.12.03
Importance:
Site of North West Company post, 1811-30s
Plaque(s)
Existing plaque: on a large panel with base Highway 16 and 93A, 1km northeast of intersection, Jasper, Alberta
Founded in 1811 by the North West Company. After the discovery of the Athabaska Pass and its adoption in 1812, as the regular trade route to and from the Columbia, this post became, and remained for abut twenty years, an important point in the transportation system of the North West Company and later of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Here began the difficult land passage across the Rocky Mountains.