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The Alpine Club of Canada is Canada's national mountaineering organization. Based in Canmore, Alberta, the ACC has been a focal point for Canadian mountaineers since 1906. The ACC offers 23 alpine huts, 19 regional club sections across Canada, year-round mountain adventures, support for access and environmental issues, affiliate membership in the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA), an avenue into competition climbing and financial grants that support a variety of mountaineering-related projects and initiatives and much more. The ACC has grown significantly from its early inception into a Canada-wide mountaineering club with a strong foundation of volunteers as well as professional and corporate support. The Alpine Club of Canada has a long association in Jasper National Park. They have built and maintained the alpine huts. The Wates-Gibson in Tonquin Valley, Sydney Vallance in Fryatt Valley, Mt Alberta and Colin Centenial Huts. They have placed registers on the summit of significant peaks in the Jasper area. The Whyte Museum holds additonal Alpine Club of Canada records.

Alexander Anderson was born in England (1891). When the family immigrated to Canada, Alexander's first job was with the bank in Lilooet (BC). He worked there until World War I. Alexander served overseas with the 134th Batallion. After World War I, he moved to Medicine Hat (AB) and worked for Maple Leaf Milling. Alexander married Anne Gillespie, of Medicine Hat, in 1935. Their daughter, Anne, was born in 1937. Anne attended school in Medicine Hat and later received her teacher's degree in Edmonton, where she currently resides

In 1913-1914, a group of Anglican Church missionaries from the Diosese of New Westminister known as "Sky Pilots" worked in various areas of British Columbia as part of the Church Camp Mission. They came as far east as Tete Jaune Cache and the Yellowhead pass area.