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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1905
- Author
- Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Dept. of the Interior
- Call Number
- 02.6 Se4wr
- Author
- Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Dept. of the Interior
- Published Date
- 1905
- Physical Description
- xvii, 459p. : ill., ports
- Subjects
- Kootenay region
- Surveys
- Notes
- Index. -- 2 Volumes. Includes 14 folding maps & profiles in separate volume with inner slipcase. A topographer and mountaineer, Wheeler conducted various government surveys in the Rockies, the Selkirks, Alaska and the Yukon, and served as one of the commissioners on the Alberta-British Columbia boundary from 1913 to 1925. Contents: Part I is an account of a topographical survey of a portion of the Selkirks adjacent to the Canadian Pacific Railway line, while parts II-IV provide a review of the previous travel and exploration, surveys, and mountaineering in the region. There is a separate chapter on women mountaineers
- Accession Number
- 224
- 1039
- 1541 deaccessioned
- 2301
- 60500 purchase for Gateway to the Rockies exhibition deaccessioned
- Call Number
- 02.6 Se4wr
- Collection
- Archives Library
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