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Slide 2 Featuring: Banff National Park Jasper National Park Slide 3 Slide 4 Founded in 1885 when hot springs were discovered on Sulfur Mountain. Canadas first national park and the worlds third and core of the largest national park system in the world. Slide 5 Lake Louise With over 5 million visitors per year, Banff National Park is the most visited park. Lake Louise is the most photographed place in the world! Slide 6 Slide 7 Moraine Lake Slide 8 Icefields Parkway The Icefields Parkway runs through Jasper and Banff National Park, crossing through several mountain passes, and skirting many glaciers and lakes and is enriched with abundant wildlife. Slide 9 Scenery along the Parkway The Icefields Parkway offers unparalleled beauty as you travel alongside a chain of massive icefields straddling the Continental Divide. Slide 10 The Athabasca Glacier (Columbia Icefields) is in retreat and markers show the glacier's reach in previous years. Take a snow vehicle onto the glacier and take a walk. Slide 11 Slide 12 Bow Lake Streaks of snow sloping down to the water's edge form a pattern reflected in Bow Lake, one of the many spectacular lakes along the Icefields Parkway. Slide 13 Wildlife It is not unusual to see mountain goats, deer, moose, wapiti along the roadside! Slide 14 Scenes of Alberta Slide 15 Jasper National Park Largest of Canada's Rocky Mountain parks offering broad valleys, rugged mountains, glaciers, forests, alpine meadows and wild rivers. Maligne Lake