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Map of Central Part of Jasper Park Sheet 5

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Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta Department of the Interior Canada Sheet Five, Southwest

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
Sheet Five, Southwest


Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta Department of the Interior Canada Sheet Five, Southwest (detail)

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
Sheet Five, Southwest (detail)

Map of the Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
From Photographic Surveys by M. P. Bridgland, D.L S. 1915
Sheet Five, Southwest

References:

  • MacLaren, Ian S. Mapper of Mountains. M. P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930. University of Alberta Press, 2005. Google Books
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Map of Central Part of Jasper Park Sheet 4

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Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta Department of the Interior Canada Sheet Four, East Central

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
Sheet Four, East Central

Map of the Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
From Photographic Surveys by M. P. Bridgland, D.L S. 1915
Sheet Four, East Central

References:

  • MacLaren, Ian S. Mapper of Mountains. M. P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930. University of Alberta Press, 2005. Google Books
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Map of Central Part of Jasper Park Sheet 3

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Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta Department of the Interior Canada Sheet Three, West Central

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
Sheet Three, West Central

Map of the Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
From Photographic Surveys by M. P. Bridgland, D.L S. 1915
Sheet Three, West Central

References:

  • MacLaren, Ian S. Mapper of Mountains. M. P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930. University of Alberta Press, 2005. Google Books
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Map of Central Part of Jasper Park Sheet 2

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Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta Department of the Interior Canada Sheet Two, Northeast

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
Sheet Two, Northeast

Map of the Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
From Photographic Surveys by M. P. Bridgland, D.L S. 1915
Sheet Two, Northeast

References:

  • MacLaren, Ian S. Mapper of Mountains. M. P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930. University of Alberta Press, 2005. Google Books
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Map of Central Part of Jasper Park Sheet 1

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Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta Department of the Interior Canada Sheet One, Northwest

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
Sheet One, Northwest

Map of the Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
From Photographic Surveys by M. P. Bridgland, D.L S. 1915
Sheet One, Northwest

References:

  • MacLaren, Ian S. Mapper of Mountains. M. P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930. University of Alberta Press, 2005. Google Books
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Morrison Parsons Bridgland

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Morrison Parsons Bridgland

Morrison Parsons Bridgland
Alberta’s Land Surveying History

Morrison Parsons Bridgland [1878–1948]

b. 1878 — Toronto, Ontario, Canada
d. 1948 — Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Morrison Parsons Bridgland [1878–1948]

Sources of biographical information about Bridgland:

  • Sissons, Charles Bruce [1879–1965]. “Morrison P. Bridgland. In Memoriam.” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 31 (1948):162-164
  • MacLaren, Ian S. Mapper of Mountains. M. P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930. University of Alberta Press, 2005 Google Books
  • Anon. “List of Members.” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 1 (1907):188
Bridgland is the namesake of the following places in the Mount Robson region:

Events in the Mount Robson region in which Bridgland was involved:

  • 1906 ACC Camp – Yoho
  • 1907 ACC Camp – Paradise Valley
  • 1913 Interprovincial Boundary Commission formed
Works pertinent to the Mount Robson region of which Bridgland was author or co-author:

  • —   “Report of the Chief Mountaineer [Yoho camp].” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 1 (1907):131
  • —   “Report of the Chief Mountaineer [Paradise Valley camp].” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1908):122
  • —   “Report of the Chief Mountaineer [Rogers Pass camp 1908].” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 2 (1909):118
  • —   “Jasper Park.” Canadian Alpine Journal, 10 (1919)

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta

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Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta Department of the Interior Canada Based on photographic surveys by M. P. Bridgland, D.L S., in 1915

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
Based on photographic surveys by M. P. Bridgland, D.L S., in 1915
Whyte Museum

Map of the Central Part of Jasper Park Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
From Photographic Surveys by M. P. Bridgland, D.L S. 1915

There is also a set of more detailed maps based on the 1915 survey led by Morrison Parsons Bridgland [1878–1948]:

Maps of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta.
Department of the Interior Canada, 1916
Sheet One, Northwest
Sheet Two, Northeast
Sheet Three, West Central
Sheet Four, East Central
Sheet Five, Southwest
Sheet Six, Southeast

References:

  • MacLaren, Ian S. Mapper of Mountains. M. P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930. University of Alberta Press, 2005. Google Books

Natasha Boyd Wetland Conservation Area

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British Columbia. Conservation area
Adjacent to Holliday Creek, 25km east of McBride.
53.1834 N 119.9149 W Google — GeoHack
Not currently an official name.
Natasha Boyd

Natasha Boyd
Fraser Headwaters Alliance

Born Natasha D. Smith in Sussex, England, in 1906, Natasha Boyd moved to North America with her sister and mother in 1912. Boyd earned a master’s degree in paleontologyfrom the University of California at Berkeley in 1938. She settled in the Robson Valley with her husband Carl in 1973. She devoted much of her time to painting wildlife in its natural habitat. She was active in the Blackwater Producers Cooperative and helped establish the McBride Arts Council.

The Natasha Boyd Wetland Conservation Area comprises 65 hectares (160 acres) of low lying wetlands and upland forests. The woodland area, which is made up of paper birch, trembling aspen, white and black spruce, lodgepole pine and western red cedar, surrounds clusters of inter-connected wetlands. The wetlands include bogs (areas with deep, nutrient poor, acidic soils), fens (more nutrient rich areas with deep peat soils vegetated by sedges and grasses), and shallow open waters.

More information is available at Fraser Headwaters Allliance and the Land Conservancy of British Columbia.

Mary Schäffer Warren

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Mary T. S. Schäffer Warren [1861–1939]

b. 1861 Pennsylvania, USA
d. 1939 — Banff, Alberta, Canada

Mary Townsend Sharples (Schaffer) (Warren), 1861-1939, was born to moderately wealthy Quaker parents at Westchester, Pennsylvania. She first visited the Canadian Rockies and Selkirk Mountains in 1888 with her friend Mary Vaux and returned the next year with her husband, Dr. Charles Schaffer.

Sources of biographical information about Schäffer Warren:

Events in the Mount Robson region in which Schäffer Warren was involved:

  • 1907 Schaffer meets Coleman in Wilcox Pass
  • 1908 Mary Schäffer YHP
Works pertinent to the Mount Robson region of which Schäffer Warren was author or co-author:

  • —   Mary Schaffer fonds M79 / V527 (1907–1911).
  • —   Old Indian trails. Incidents of camp and trail life, covering two years’ exploration through the Rocky Mountains of Canada. [1907 and 1908]. New York: Putnam, 1911. Internet Archive
  • —   “Sergeant Sidney J. Unwin, Canadian Artillery [in Memoriam].” Canadian Alpine Journal, 8 (1917):107-108
  • —   A hunter of peace : Mary T.S. Schaffer’s Old Indian Trails of the Canadian Rockies ; incidents of camp and trail life, covering two years’ exploration through the Rocky Mountains of Canada ; including a previously unpublished account : the 1911 expedition to Maligne Lake and Yahe-Weha – Mountain Woman, a portrait of Mary Schaffer Warren. Edited by Edward J. Hart. 1980