Lodge, Hotel Macdonald, Banff Springs Hotel, Chateau Lake Louise, Le Chateau Frontenac, Chateau Laurier, Royal York and Montreal’s Queen Elizabeth hotel. Jasper Park Lodge Golf Club history The wide-open valley along Lac Beauvert made the prospect of a golf course in the area feasible, and in 1922 the Dominion Parks Branch decided to build a golf course for use by visitors and Jasper residents. A simple nine-hole course was designed by Charlie Duncan, a golf professional from Banff, and work began on clearing boulders and bush. After slow construction in 1922 and 1923, the Canadian National Railway approached the Canadian government with an offer to take over the construction of the golf course. The Canadian National Railway commissioned Canadian golf course architect Stanley Thompson to design the 18-hole course. The site was cleared in the summer of 1923 by a team of 250 men, which found the topsoil insufficient for growing thick grass necessary for the course. The Canadian National Railway bought a quarter-section of farm land near Edmonton, stripped the topsoil and loaded it into trains to Jasper at great expense to complete the golf course. A 190,000-litre concrete dam was built along the mountainside to hold water for the course. The Jasper Park Lodge Golf Club opened on July 17, 1925, with Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, the commander in chief of British Forces in the First World War, hitting the first ball. The course was renovated in 1928-29 in preparation for the Canadian Amateur Championship. In 1930, a clubhouse was constructed for the course, as well as a 23-bedroom building for golfers. The Jasper Park Lodge Golf Club held an annual "Totem Pole Tournament" from the 1920s to the 1950s, which was won by actor Bing Crosby in 1947. The original design had the ninth hole situated far from the clubhouse, so three additional holes were constructed in 1950 to allow golfers to play nine holes and finish at the clubhouse. A new clubhouse was constructed in 1968 with a pro shop included. In popular culture The Jasper Park Lodge has been featured and used in various films, TV shows and other forms of media. The first feature film at the lodge was the 1926 Fox Film Corporation The Country Beyond, three years later Fox returned with Under Suspicion, and director W. S. Van Dyke's Rose Marie in 1936. The Jasper Park Lodge hosted the filming for