Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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For as long as human beings have braved the mountain passes and rugged trails of the Canadian Rockies, stories have been told of a huge, elusive, man-like creature that haunts the slopes. Though scarcer and more obscure than its famous West Coast counterpart, this mysterious alpine monster has nonetheless found its way into foundational ethnological treatises on Canada’s First Nations, and into seminal works on the Sasquatch phenomenon. In this piece, we will delve into classic legends of and encounters with the wildman of the Canadian Rockies.

Co-Producer: Dan Chomistek
ChomistekFilms.com

0:00:00 – Introduction
0:02:00 - Kootenai Legends
0:05:17 - Sasquatch Sightings in Canada’s Southern Rockies
0:09:09 - Stoney Legends
0:12:17 - Sasquatch Sightings in Banff National Park
0:14:34 - The Kootenay Plains Sightings
0:19:34 - The Kananaskis Sighting
0:20:42 - Motorist Sighting Near Abraham Lake
0:22:12 - Shuswap Legends
0:25:49 - David Thompson’s Mystery Tracks
0:32:58 - Sasquatch Sightings in the Jasper Area
0:33:38 - William Roe’s Encounter
0:40:14 - Other Rocky Mountain Encounters

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Other videos in this ‘Classic Canadian Sasquatch series’:

1 – The Agassiz-Harrison Valley
youtube.com/watch?v=2Lws-RsBDi4&list=PLR3oQ3qzmt1dJnca5d64TNcpYPo3gXSZ9&index=8&ab_channel=HammersonPeters

3 – The Columbia Mountains
youtube.com/watch?v=Aj9L_HrcmKI&ab_channel=HammersonPeters

4 – The Okanagan
youtube.com/watch?v=K2b2SJ0Za6M&ab_channel=HammersonPeters

5 – The Fraser Canyon
youtube.com/watch?v=8xiNxODE0zM&ab_channel=HammersonPeters

6 - The North Cascade Mountains
youtube.com/watch?v=oY5aL-gaSVs&ab_channel=HammersonPeters