Talk:Yoho National Park

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[edit] "Yoho" is from Cree?

Now why did I grow up thinking it was in Kootenay/Ktunaxa or Blackfoot or some other language from the immediate area? I know there were Cree in the employ of the HBC/NWC, but this seems like a long way from Cree home turf for this placename, which AFAIK was conferred long before the railway (and its implicit introduction of aboriginal names from outisde the region, e.g. Minnekhada, the old G-G's retreat in Port Coquitlam).Skookum1 15:01, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Eriklizee 17:26, 24 October 2007 (UTC) I think the explanation lies in the 'middleman' role of the Cree in the fur trade. Although Yoho is a fair distance away from their terrirtory, they would have often travelled to the area to trade goods (at inflated prices) for furs with the local hunting bands, then taken those furs back to trading posts on the plains. They would have told HBC/NWC traders their name for the area, and it seems to have stuck.