Yellowhead Pass
Through the Rocky Mountains. Elevation, 3733 feet
above sea level. The summit of the pass is eighteen miles in a straight
line from the Athabaska River. Yellowhead Lake, a little west of the
summit, discharges its waters into the Fraser River. Because of its easy
gradients, this pass was favoured by (Sir) Sandford Fleming as the route
for the Canadian Pacific Railway, but political considerations forced
the selection of the much more difficult Kicking Horse Pass.