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 chalets and the whole Swiss village were documenting using a combination of laser scanners and drones in October, 2023. Please note, this page is still under construction so check back in soon for more!
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 refer to it by its colour. The brown chalet was digitally documented in October, 2023. Please note, this page is still under construction so check back in soon for more!
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 refer to it by its unique design elements reminiscent of pagoda architecture. The pagoda chalet was digitally documented in October, 2023. Please note, this page is still under construction so check back in soon for more!
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 in October, 2023. Please note, this page is still under construction so check back in soon for more!
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 refer to it by its colour. The blue chalet was digitally documented in October, 2023. Please note, this page is still under construction so check back in soon for more!
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 documented in October, 2023. Please note, this page is still under construction so check back in soon for more!
Edelweiss Swiss Village is a special sub archive within the Alberta Digital Heritage Archive. Although located in Golden BC, the village has strong ties to the origins of Western Canada’s Mountaineering history in the Bow Valley region of Alberta.
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 of Golden, BC. The house was the historic home of renowned Swiss mountain guide Edward Feuz Jr. Hired by the CPR at the turn of the 20th Century, Feuz and other certified Swiss mountain guides introduced European-style mountaineering in the Selkirk and Rocky Mountains and profoundly shaped today’s world-famous mountain culture in Western Canada.
