Nemiskam National Park was created north of the community of Nemiskam (today a ghost town)[1] in south central Alberta, Canada, in 1922.
[2] Nemiskam is a First Nations word meaning "between two valleys", referring to the Chin Coulee and Etzikom Coulee on either side of the former community.
[1] Beginning in 1914, a large portion of the 139 km2 (54 sq mi) of land[3] that would later form Nemiskam National Park was designated the Nemiskam National Antelope Reserve,[2] to protect Pronghorn (often referred to as antelope).
The area was one of many pronghorn reserves created in Alberta and Saskatchewan at that time.
Nemiskam National Park was one of several national parks created in the Canadian Prairies expressly to protect and regenerate dangerously low populations of bison and Pronghorn.