the Trail Blazers succeeded,
and they were committed to
pushing the development of
the envisioned David Thompson
Highway.
   The second reason the
David Thompson Highway was
built lies with the tenacity
of the people of central
Alberta and Rocky Mountain

House. The people who
organized, staged and
participated in the David
Thompson Cavalcades year
after year, from 1957 until
1975 gave the strength of
hundreds of voices to the
push for a highway to be
built from Rocky Mountain
House, leading to the West

Country and on into British
Columbia.
   Survey work for the David
Thompson Highway was
completed in 1968, and the
highway was paved and
dedicated in 1975. Ernest
Ross passed away in December
of 1963, but had a mountain
named after him. Mount

Ernest Ross can be seen from
the Kootenay Plains, and is 8
km toward Banff National Park
from the Cline River parking
lot.