RED PASS

RED PASS

Is a tiny settlement and junction point on the Canadian National Railway, just 63 kilometers west of Jasper Alberta and just east of Tete Jaune Cache along Highway #16 (Yellowhead Highway). During the 1920s, it started out as a small hunting and fishing community and later had a school and a police station that later served as a headquarters building for Mount Robson Provincial Park. During Red Pass’ heyday it had a peak population of about 500 residents.  Red Pass was originally surveyed with its streets running parallel to the railway with one of them being present-day Yellowhead Highway. During the Second World War (WWII) and 1942, Red Pass was home to a small Japanese Internment Camp when Japanese Canadians were relocated after the attack of Pearl Harbour. Today, Red Pass is basically abandoned and is named after a red-colored mountain summit found nearby. A museum in Valemount, about an hour south, relives the history of the railway as well as the area.