“Kananaskis has always been a place where the wild pushes back.”
Before highways and hiking trails, Kananaskis existed in journals and on early survey maps—quiet, vast, and largely unknown. In 1858, John Palliser named the river after a Cree story of Kin-e-a-kis, a warrior who survived against the odds. Settlers like John Brewster followed, building cattle ranches beneath Mount Yamnuska. Logging and mining came later, but the landscape stayed wild. Today, Kananaskis remains shaped by that history—a place where nature still leads.
