Canadian National Railway

Samuel Clifton was more than just the ferry captain at North Croydon in the 1950s, he was a friend and neighbor to many people in the Robson Valley.

— “Prince George Citizen.” Prince George Citizen, 1950

Norum’s Gulf Service at North Croydon burned to the ground in December 1970.

Fetherstonhaugh Pass.

Adopted in 1923 as a well-established local name.

Location approximate.

From 1871 to 1874, four expeditions searched the Cariboos to determine whether there was a practical route that could be used. In 1871, James A. Mahood, with a large party, left Quesnelle, crossed Dominion pass, and went down Castle river to the Fraser, where he wintered and continued his fruitless search the next year. Dominion pass is northwest of the higher portion of the Cariboos. This crossing with pack animals, may have been the first recorded crossing of a glacial pass in Canadian mountains..

— Zillmer

This pass does not currently seem to have a name. “Dominion Pass” is not currently recognized.

Identified as “Callahoo River” on “Sketch map of region between Yellowhead Pass & Peace River” by Richardson and Hale, 1915 (received March 1920, LI 101402, file 34275-S).

Origin of the name unknown.

The Park Ranges, also known as the Main Ranges (neither names recognized in the official gazeteers) are a group of mountain ranges in the Canadian Rockies of southeastern British Columbia and southwestern Alberta. It is one of the three main subranges and the most central of the Continental Ranges, extending from southeast of Mount McGregor to the Fernie Basin.

Adopted in 1986 in association with Mount Kitchi, from a Cree word meaning “great” or “mighty.”

Adopted 17 August 1965 on 93I, as labelled on BC map 1H, 1917, and on plan 10T264, “Topographic survey of head of McGregor River” by A.J. Campbell, BCLS, 1929, and as recommended for adoption by BC Geographic Division 1933 (file 34275s #3

Five lakes in the chain. 3 drain east to Kakwa River, the other 2 drain west through Jarvis Creek.

Named by R. W. Jones, a GTP surveyor who was in the area about 1904-06 (information from S. Prescott Fay, file P.1.47).

Jarvis Creek flows out of a chain of 5 lakes…” (excerpt from Major Hannington’s journal, 24 February 1875, being an account of his explorations with E.W. Jarvis, 1874-75, and marking this location as “Summit between B.Columbia and the N.W. Territory”

This feature had been mis-labelled “Barbara Lakes” on “Exploration…Wapiti River to the Fraser River” compiled in 1928 by H.G. Dimsdale & Prentiss Gray (Geog. map 14-P) “….we found in Jarvis Pass a chain of four beautiful lakes, sketched by Mr. Prescott Fay about 1914, fed by the perpetual snows and ice-fields of Mounts Teepee and Kitchi [sic]. These lakes were the principal source of the Barbara River [sic], so we called them Barbara Lakes….” ( from”A New Low Pass of the Rockies” by Prentiss Gray, published in Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. vol LXXX No.2, August 1932) [note that Gray’s names “Barbara River” and “Barbara Lakes” (after his daughter) were not accepted – he had simply ignored the prior existence of “Jarvis”.