 She and the Manitoba Free Press continued to publicize and support Canadian mountaineering, and with the help of the Canadian Pacific Railway, she organized the founding meeting of the ACC in 1906, at which she became the Club's first secretary.Although she was not herself a mountaineer, Parker participated in many of the ACC camp trips and was at home in the mountains and among the climbing community.She helped lay out the philosophical foundations of the club in the opening article of the first "Canadian Alpine Journal" (1907)