Map of the central portion of British Columbia.
British Columbia Department of Lands and Works, 1892
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Note along the South Fork of the Fraser River:
From the Grand Rapids to Cranberry River (185 miles) the South Fork might be navigated by steamers of light draft. The fall, 2 feet to a mile, is nearly uniform.
Note at Tête Jaune Cache: Iroquois I. Vill.
Edward Worrell Jarvis [1846–1894]
British Columbia.
Published by Geo. F. Cram, Chicago,Ill.
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![British Columbia [detail].
Published by Geo. F. Cram, Chicago,Ill.](/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/map-cram-british_columbia-1913-detail.jpg)
British Columbia [detail].
Published by Geo. F. Cram, Chicago,Ill.
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center
George Franklin Cram [1842-1928] was an American map publisher. He served in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War. Upon mustering out he joined his uncle Rufus Blanchard’s Evanston, Illinois, map business in 1867. Two years later, he became sole proprietor of the firm and renamed it the George F. Cram Co. which became a leading map firm in the United States.
The map indicates the constructon of both the Grand Trunk Pacific Railwayand the Canadian Northern Railway, both traversing the Yellowhead Pass and branching at Tête Jaune Cache.
On the Grand Trunk route following the Fraser River between Tête Jaune Cache and Fort George there are no settlements indicated. South of Tête Jaune Cache the first settlements along the CNoR are near Kamloops on the North Thompson River.
Indigenous people
Harmon’s map interior of North America 1820 shows the following Indian distribution:
East of the Rocky Mountains:
Beaver Indians — around the Peace River from headwaters to Fort Chipewyan
Cree or Knisteneaux Indians — around the Saskatchewan River drainage
Sursee Indians — around headwaters of the Athabasca River
West of the Rockies:
Sicanny Indians — north of Fraser River
Carrier (Dakelh) or Tacully Indians — around upper Fraser River
Peter Pond’s maps of 1785 and 1787 refer to the River of Peace.
Other names have included Un-ja-ga/Unjigah, as recorded on a map to accompany Mackenzie’s “Voyage to the Pacific… 1793”