Alberta is now served by two major transcontinental railways ( CN and CP ), by three major highway connections to the Pacific ( the Trans-Canada via Kicking Horse Pass, the Yellowhead via Yellowhead Pass and the Crowsnest via Crowsnest Pass ), and one to the United States ( Interstate 15 ), as well as two international airports ( Calgary and Edmonton ).

However, Mount Robson is particularly impressive because it stands out on the continental divide towering over Yellowhead Pass, one of the lowest passes in the Canadian Rockies, and is close to the Yellowhead Highway.

The highway is named for the Yellowhead Pass, the route chosen to cross the Canadian Rockies.

In 1947, Highway 16's western end was moved from New Hazelton to the coastal city of Prince Rupert, and in 1953, the highway was extended all the way east into Yellowhead Pass.

14 km ( 9 mi ) east of Tête Jaune Cache, Highway 16 enters Mount Robson Provincial Park, coursing through the park for 63 km ( 39 mi ) to the boundary between British Columbia and Alberta within Yellowhead Pass.

The pass is located in southeast British Columbia and southwest Alberta, and is the southernmost rail and highway route through the Canadian Rockies and the lowest-elevation mountain pass in Canada south of the Yellowhead Pass ( 1, 130 m ); the other major passes, which are higher, being Kicking Horse Pass ( 1, 640 m ), Howse Pass ( 1, 530 m ) and Vermilion Pass ( 1, 680 m ).

Jasper is connected to the west via the Yellowhead Highway and the Yellowhead Pass to Prince George and to the east to Edmonton.

Construction costs on the GTPR escalated, despite having the most favourable crossing of the Continental Divide in North America at Yellowhead Pass.

The first idea was to cross Seymour Narrows at Menzies Bay with a rail bridge for the then-proposed Canadian Pacific Railway to link Victoria, via Bute Inlet and the Yellowhead Pass, with the rest of Canada.

It could also have encouraged the Canadian Pacific Railway to seek a more northerly route for its transcontinental railway that went through the well-mapped and partially settled valley of the North Saskatchewan River, touching on Prince Albert, Battleford and Edmonton, and through the Yellowhead Pass, as originally proposed by Sandford Fleming.

Construction proceeded west to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1907, Edmonton, Alberta in 1909, and through Jasper, Alberta into Yellowhead Pass crossing the Continental Divide in 1910-1911.

The GTPR's high construction standards and the fact Yellowhead Pass has the lowest elevation of any railway crossing of the Continental Divide in North America gives the CN a competitive advantage in terms of fuel efficiency and the ability to haul tonnage.

In western Canada, in 1910 construction was started on the line west of Edmonton through Yellowhead Pass to Vancouver, thanks to subsidies provided by the government of British Columbia.

In addition to difficult construction between Jasper, Alberta, and Vancouver, CNoR started construction west of Edmonton in 1910, fully two years later than GTPR, which had started construction east from Prince Rupert in the Skeena River, leading to Yellowhead Pass.

The park is accessed via Emerson Creek Road, running north of Edson and Hinton, rhoughly parallel to the Yellowhead Highway.

Or, follow the Yellowhead Highway (# 16 ) west from Jasper townsite for to the Mount Robson Viewpoint centre.

To reach the park, follow the Yellowhead Highway 390 kilometres west of Edmonton or 290 kilometres east of Prince George.

At the western terminus of Trans-Canada Highway 16 ( the Yellowhead Highway ), Prince Rupert is approximately 12 km west of Port Edward, 144 km west of Terrace, and 717 km west of Prince George.

It is located in Yellowhead County, northeast of Jasper and about west of Alberta's capital city, Edmonton, at the intersection of Yellowhead and Bighorn Highway, in the Athabasca River valley.

Situated on the Yellowhead Highway ( Highway 16 ), McBride is a small community in the Robson Valley region of British Columbia, Canada, located southeast of Prince George, west of the Alberta border, and west of Jasper, Alberta.

It is located in Yellowhead County, west of Edmonton along the Yellowhead Highway and east of the intersection with Highway 47.

Edson is connected to the Yellowhead Highway from east to west and to Coal Valley via Highway 47 to the south.

It is located at the intersection of Highway 16 ( Yellowhead Highway ) and Highway 41 ( Buffalo Trail ), approximately west of Lloydminster and east of Edmonton.

It is located east of Edmonton and west of Vegreville, at the intersection of Highway 15 and Highway 855, north of the Yellowhead Highway.

On April 9, 2008, the Government of Manitoba announced that construction of a new interchange will begin in the summer of 2008 at the intersection of Highway 16 ( the Yellowhead Highway ) and the Trans Canada Highway mainline route, located a short distance west of Portage la Prairie.

The Western provinces have coordinated their highway numbers so that the main Trans-Canada route is designated Highway 1 and the Yellowhead route is designated Highway 16 throughout ; however, from the Manitoba – Ontario border eastwards, the highway numbers change at each provincial boundary.

The south face of Mount Robson is clearly visible from the Yellowhead Highway ( Highway 16 ).

* the CN main line from the Yellowhead Pass southwest to Vancouver.

It broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on UHF channel 17 ( or virtual channel 51. 1 via PSIP ) from a transmitter near Yellowhead Highway / Highway 16A and operates a rebroadcast transmitter in Red Deer on VHF channel 4.

New Hazelton is also the northernmost point of the Yellowhead Highway, a major interprovincial highway which runs from Prince Rupert, British Columbia to Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Great Bear snow shed, approaching from the North. Yellowhead Highway 5, southbound

In 1959, Highway 93 was extended from Elko along the Crowsnest and Highway 95 to its current length through Radium Hot Springs to where it crosses the Continental Divide into Alberta at Vermilion Pass, where it continues as Alberta Highway 93 until its terminus at the junction with the Yellowhead Highway in Jasper.

First opened in 1973, Highway 35 provides a connection from the Yellowhead at the community of Burns Lake, south to Francois Lake, where a ferry connects the highway to the hamlet of Southbank.

In Manitoba, the Trans-Canada Highway from Winnipeg to Portage La Prairie is concurrently signed with Yellowhead Highway.

It runs northward from its junction with Highway 97 just south of Prince George, and terminates at the Yellowhead Highway just east of Prince George.

Railway construction in northern Alberta during the early 20th century was dominated by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and the Canadian Northern Railway, both of which were building westward from Edmonton, Alberta, to the Yellowhead Pass of the Rocky Mountains.

Paul " from parts of Lakeland, Elk Island, St. Albert, Yellowhead and Athabasca ridings.

It broadcasts an analogue signal on VHF channel 4 from a transmitter near Southern Yellowhead Highway / Highway 5, southeast of Kamloops Airport.

He is the Member of Parliament for Yellowhead, and was the Minister of State for Transport from October 2008 to May 2011.

Infection with WSSV differs from other described penaeid infections Yellowhead virus ( YHV ) and Infectious Hypodermal and Hematopoietic Necrosis virus ( IHHNV ) in the described histological findings as YHV has a reduced tissue specificity, infecting only the intestinal epithelial tissues and IHHNV causes intranuclear occlusions that stain eosinophillic but do not change over the course of the infection.

It is located between the towns of Entwistle and Evansburg, a short distance from the Yellowhead Highway.