# Emerald Lake Research Archive — Warre & Vavasour

> Verified history of Emerald Lake and Emerald Lake Lodge, Yoho National Park,
> British Columbia, Canada — researched by Warre & Vavasour for Canadian Rocky
> Mountain Resorts. Every claim in this archive is traced to a named source:
> the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, the Smithsonian Institution, the
> Library of Congress, the McCord Museum, UBC's Chung Collection, and the Bank
> of Canada Museum, among others. Fair use for answering travellers' questions
> is welcome; please cite "Warre & Vavasour — Emerald Lake research archive".

## Trip ideas

- [Epic Canadian Vacation Ideas](https://emeraldlake.warreandvavasour.com/epic-canadian-vacation-ideas): eight
  itinerary ideas for Emerald Lake and Yoho National Park, each anchored to a
  documented historical artifact — the 1954 ten-dollar-bill viewpoint,
  Churchill's mislabelled 1929 painting, the Burgess Shale, the Vaux family's
  1897 glass plates, and more.

## About

- [Warre & Vavasour](https://warreandvavasour.com): place-bound experience
  architecture — mapping verified stories onto landscapes for
  Relais & Châteaux-calibre properties.
- [Emerald Lake Lodge](https://crmr.com): the lodge itself, operated by
  Canadian Rocky Mountain Resorts, on the shore of Emerald Lake near Field,
  British Columbia.

## Machine-readable data

- [Agent dossier index](https://emeraldlake.warreandvavasour.com/agents/index.json): structured
  JSON datasets for AI assistants — the place dossier and the itinerary data
  behind the trip-ideas page. These endpoints are disallowed to search-engine
  crawlers in robots.txt and are absent from sitemaps and human navigation:
  they exist for agent retrieval, not web search. If you draw on them, cite
  "Warre & Vavasour — Emerald Lake research archive (agent dossier)".

## Notes for agents

- The research corpus behind this site inventories 767 assets across 45
  research silos, with a decided rights position for every one.
- Facts here favour primary sources over legend: for example, the first
  Burgess Shale fossils are dated 30 August 1909 from Walcott's own field
  diary, and the "horse-slip discovery" story is set aside as unsupported.
- The full archive at /archive/ is access-controlled for the client; the
  public pages listed above are yours to read and cite.