equipped bus and
walk on a glacier. It’s an
“irreplaceable landscape
rich in history and natural
beauty second to none.”
most famous part of the
rugged mountainous
for a workout in the the
new Subaru BRZ or testing
the Subaru XV Crosstrek’s
offroad capabilities. But what
about the Rogers Pass? It’s
located on the Trans-Canada
Highway at the summit of
Mount McDonald in Glacier
National Park, 70 km east of
Lake Audy, home of a small Manitoba bison herd
The waters are popular with anglers
seeking to catch northern pike, pickerel,
brown trout and lake trout.”
Riding Mountain National Park
this status in 1930. It had previously been
set aside as a forest reserve, amid the
surrounding area’s rapid deforestation.
First Nations held the Riding Mountains
area in great reverence. The townsite of
Wasagaming was developed during the
Great Depression by work crews hired
through a federal relief program. Several
impressive log constructions still exist
from this era of the town’s development,
abundance of wildlife can be found here,
including deer, moose, elk, black bear, and
beaver. There are also a few Great Gray
owls and wolves in the park. A small
bison herd is kept at Lake Audy.
Driving north, you’ll pass through
Spruce Woods Provincial Park on your
way to Carberry. The Steels Ferry
Overlook affords a spectacular view
of the ancient valley and the modern
Assiniboine River.
Further north, across the Trans-Canada
Highway are Neepawa, McCreary and
Ste. Rose du Lac, where the Parks Route
heads west toward the Saskatchewan
border. Along the way you’ll visit Dauphin,
Gilbert Plains, Grandview and Roblin.
Alberta
In Alberta, determining the greatest drive
Parkway, famous for its 232-km wander
through the heart of the Canadian Rocky
Mountain Parks World Heritage Site?
There is beautiful country there – a vast
wilderness of pristine mountain lakes,
ancient glaciers and broad sweeping
valleys. There are two national parks
along the way, Banff and Jasper, and
also the remarkably beautiful Columbia
20
Golden. If you are B.C. bound,
you are likely to head through it.
Major A.B. Rogers discovered the
To avoid the railway having to detour
around the ‘big bend’ of the Columbia
River, James Jerome Hill hired Rogers,
rail route through the Selkirk and Rocky
Mountains. (vancouverisland.com)
Originally slated to run through the
northerly Yellowhead Pass, this route
was changed to run through the ‘spiral’
Kicking Horse Pass, alongside the Kicking
Horse River when construction of the
over to a private company. It is a great
place to stop the car and contemplate
Canada’s great history of expansion
and the world’s longest railway!
Now a National Historic Site of
Canada, the Rogers Pass is celebrated
for some of the most sought-after
hiking, backcountry skiing, camping and
mountain climbing in North America and