West Twin Protected Area established in 2001, containing approximately 9134 hectares.
Adopted in 1982 as submitted by Northwood Pulp & Timber Ltd. The name “oog” goes back to the Indian history of the area, and represents a legendary being, according to Northwood.
Adopted in 1997 as proposed by J.O. Premischook and endorsed by area Parks and Regional District representatives.
Named after Barkerville-area fixture Francis (Frank) Arthur Cushman [1924 – 1994]. Cushman was at Yakima, Washington, and served with the US Marine Corp in WW II before moving to BC with his family in 1955. After ranching at Nicola and Stump Lakes, he purchased the Cariboo Hunting & Fishing Lodge on Bowron Lake in 1961, and later operated Wolverine Mountain Outfitters in the vicinity of this mountain.
He is remembered as one of Barkerville‘s most colourful characters, playing the role of Ned Stout, Bavarian placer miner, in street vignettes. With a rugged face and handlebar moustache, Cushman’s was one of the most photographed faces in BC, appearing in hundreds of magazines and calendars over the years (although I haven’t been able to find one).
If you have a map of Jasper Park you will see a Pass called Elysium Pass, along the Pyramid range, and lies North west of Jasper. Curlie lost his life in the slide that came down North of the Pass on the waters of the Snaring River.
— Letter from Bert Wilkins to James Monroe Thorington [1895–1989], April 10, 1938
Wilkins was refering to the death of Donald “Curly” Phillips [1884–1938].
Boundary between Alberta and British Columbia. Sheet 26. Surveyed in 1920
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The altitude of Divergence Peak is 9275 feet. The watershed line does not reach the summit, but at an altitude of 8920 feet is deflected sharply from a little west of north to southwest, for which reason the name has been given to the peak.
So wrote surveyor Arthur Oliver Wheeler [1860–1945] of the Alberta-British Columbia Boundary Commission regarding surveys done in 1920.
Named by Alberta-British Columbia Boundary Commission surveyors in 1923:
The Bastille-Wallbridge ridge shows steep shale slopes on the southwest side and a precipitous rock face on the northeast side, the latter supporting a cliff glacier, two miles in length.
Follows Doré River.
Ray Zillmer
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Raymond T. Zillmer [1887–1960]
b. 1887 — Milwaukee, Wisconsin
d. 1960 — Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Zillmer was an American attorney, mountaineer, and conservationist. During the 1930s-40s, Zillmer became an accomplished and respected explorer and mountaineer. In July, 1934 Zillmer was part of a team of five mountaineers who completed the first ascent of Anchorite Peak, British Columbia, Canada. He would go on to complete several other first ascents and describe previously uncharted lands. In the summer of 1938, he and Lorin Tiefenthaler retraced the steps of the expedition of Alexander Mackenzie [1764–1820] in 1792-93 between the Fraser and Bella Coola rivers. He described the adventure in detail in his first of four articles published in the Canadian Alpine Journal.