Explore – Swiss Edelweiss Village
Edelweiss Swiss Village was home to the Swiss Mountain Guides who opened up the Canadian Rockies to mountaineering during the first decades of the 20th century. In 2022, the Digital Heritage Preservation Research Group at the University of Calgary began working with the Swiss Edelweiss Village Foundation to preserve the six chalets that comprise the site. This past October, our team returned to capture the entire site using a GeoSlam Horizon mobile lidar system with Zeb camera, as well as a Z+F 5010X and Leica Blk360 scanner. Stay tuned as we add more content to each Chalet project page.
Edward Feuz’s Chalet
The Edward Feuz House is a two-story chalet built in 1911 by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). The building is situated the highest among a group of six unique Swiss-style chalets known as “Edelweiss Village”, located on a steep hill north of the town o…
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Christian Haesler’s Chalet
The Swiss Edelweiss Village is comprised of six chalets built between 1910-1912 by the CPR as permeant homes for six CPR-employed Swiss mountain guides and their families. This chalet was occupied by Christian Haesler and his family and was digitally docu…
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Blue Chalet
The Swiss Edelweiss Village is comprised of six chalets built between 1910-1912 by the CPR as permeant homes for six CPR-employed Swiss mountain guides and their families. It is currently unknown which Swiss guide and family occupied this chalet, so we re…
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Ernst Feuz’s Chalet
The Swiss Edelweiss Village is comprised of six chalets built between 1910-1912 by the CPR as permeant homes for six CPR-employed Swiss mountain guides and their families. This chalet was occupied by Ernst Feuz and his family and was digitally documented…
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Pagoda Chalet
The Swiss Edelweiss Village is comprised of six chalets built between 1910-1912 by the CPR as permeant homes for six CPR-employed Swiss mountain guides and their families. It is currently unknown which Swiss guide and family occupied this chalet, so we re…
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Brown Chalet
The Swiss Edelweiss Village is comprised of six chalets built between 1910-1912 by the CPR as permeant homes for six CPR-employed Swiss mountain guides and their families. It is currently unknown which Swiss guide and family occupied this chalet, so we re…
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Edelweiss Swiss Village
The Swiss Edelweiss Village is comprised of six chalets built between 1910-1912 by the CPR as permeant homes for six CPR-employed Swiss mountain guides and their families. The Edward Feuz chalet was digitally documented in May, 2022. The rest of the chale…
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