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
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224
1039
1541 deaccessioned
2301
60500 purchase for Gateway to the Rockies exhibition deaccessioned
The Wheeler House was the personal residence of Arthur O. Wheeler, co-founder and first president of the Alpine Club of Canada. The house stood adjacent to the first ACC clubhouse on Sulphur Mountain, located approximately halfway between the Bow River and the Upper Hot Springs.
Wheeler constructed the house in 1920, it recieved official heritage recognition in 1994, and was demolished in 2011.
Scope & Content
File pertains to photographs of the Wheeler House.