Historical and local name of Holmes River
53.25 N 120.0667 W Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1910
Not currently an official name.
Collie’s map Yellowhead Pass 1912
Phillips’s map NW of Robson 1915
Jobe map Jarvis to Yellowhead 1915
The wide valley of the Big Smoky could be seen for many miles and, between Mt. Bess and the great white mountain, a large tributary valley which leads across the Continental Divide at its head to the Beaver River, a tributary of the Fraser. Donald Phillips, who, with Konrad Kain, spent part of the past winter (1911-12) trapping and exploring in the locality, writes me: “We did a lot of exploring this winter up in that country and found two more passes to the Stony River, but they are too rough at present to go over with horses. We also discovered two passes from the Smoky to the Beaver River, that flows into the Fraser. The Beaver River is about forty miles long.”
— Wheeler 1911
Donald Phillips had told us that somewhere up on these alplands [near Mount Bess] there was a caribou trail which would lead us down to the Beaver River.
— Sibbald 1927
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- Washburn, Stanley [1878–1950]. Trails, trappers and tenderfeet in the new empire of Western Canada. London: A. Melrose, 1912. Hathi Trust
- Phillips, Donald [1884–1938]. “Winter conditions north and west of Mt. Robson.” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 6 (1914–1915):128-135. Alpine Club of Canada
- Jobe Akeley, Mary Lenore [1878–1966]. “Mt. Kitchi: A New Peak in the Canadian Rockies.” Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, Volume 47, No. 7 (1915):481-497, Map follows p. 496. JSTOR
- Sibbald, A. S. “North of Mount Robson.” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 16 (1927):147. Alpine Club of Canada