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Surveying the Great Divide : the Alberta/BC Boundary Survey, 1913-1917
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sh5s Volume 1
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Responsibility
- Jay Sherwood
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 176 pages, illustrations, maps
- Series
- Volume 1
- Subjects
- Cautley, Richard William
- Deville, Edouard
- Geological Survey of Canada
- Hope, Charles Vincent
- Kain, Conrad
- Place names
- Surveyors
- Wallace, James Nevin
- Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
- World War I
- Abstract
- "In 1917, during Canada's 50th anniversary, there was little celebration in the country as it entered the fourth year of World War I. This conflict had a tremendous economic and emotional impact on the various levels of government in the country and on the lives of many people in Canada. In western Canada, despite the turmoil and uncertain outcome of the war, one of the country's major surveying projects continued. In 1913 the Alberta, British Columbia, and Dominion governments began surveying and marking the boundary between the two provinces along the Rocky Mountains. British Columbia's representative, A.O. Wheeler, scaled many of the peaks along the Great Divide and did the phototopographic surveying. R.W. Cautley, the representative for the Alberta and Dominion governments, mapped the boundary through the economically important mountain passes. During the years of 1913-1917, the Boundary Commission surveyors mainly covered the area from Kicking Horse Pass to the United States border."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Map of the Passes Surveyed 1913-1917
- The Rocky Mountains 1917
- Background
- Cast of Characters
- Surveying Methods
- 1913
- 1914
- 1915
- 1916
- 1917
- Geographical Names
- Afterword
- Survey Crews
- Acknowledgements
- Sources
- Index
- Notes
- Includes photographs from the "Mountain Legacy Project" repeat photography
- ISBN
- 978-1-987915-52-5 (softcover)
- Accession Number
- gratis October 2017
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sh5s Volume 1
- Collection
- Archives Library
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