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Scott Creek

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Alberta. Creek: Athabasca River drainage
Flows into Middle Whirlpool River near Continental Divide
52.4842 N 118.1081 W — Map 083D08 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1935
Official in Canada
This creek appears on:
Boundary Commission Sheet 26 (surveyed in 1920)
Boundary Commission Sheet 27 (surveyed in 1920 & 1921)

Named in reference to Mount Scott.

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Mount Fryatt

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Alberta. Mount
Between Divergence Creek and Fryatt Creek
52.55 N 117.9103 W — Map 083C12 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1947
Official in Canada
This mount appears on:
Boundary Commission Sheet 26 (surveyed in 1920)
Captain Charles Fryatt, ca. 1915

Captain Charles Fryatt, ca. 1915
Wikipedia

Named in 1921 after Charles Algernon Fryatt [1872 –1916], a British merchant seaman who was court martialled by the Imperial German Navy for attempting to ram a German U-boat in 1915. When his ship, the SS Brussels, was captured off occupied Belgium in 1916, Captain Fryatt was court-martialled under German military law and sentenced to death for “illegal civilian warfare.” International outrage followed his execution by firing squad near Bruges, Belgium. In 1919, his body was reburied with full honours in the United Kingdom.

The name was conferred by surveyor Arthur Oliver Wheeler [1860–1945] of the Alberta-British Columbia Boundary Commission, who worked the area in 1920:

The south branch [of the Whirlpool River] is the main stream. …. Near the upper end it turns and leads to a large glacier, being divided into two parts by a thickly forested elevation rising between them. The glacier which has undoubtedly originated the gravel flat, is the surplus discharge of a broad icefield at the northeastern corner of which stands Mt. Scott, and Mt. Hooker at the southwestern. The name “Scott” was given to a mountain and to the glacier by A. L. Mumm, Vice-President of the Alpine Club (England), after the celebrated explorer who lost his life in his famous expedition to discover the South Pole. In 1913 Mumm and Geoffrey Howard visited Athabasca Pass in an endeavour to elucidate the mystery of Mts. Brown and Hooker. It appears, however, that the name Mt. Scott was conferred upon the mountain that was named Hooker by David Douglas and, in consequence, the name has been transferred to the high mountain at the northeastern corner of the icefield. These gentlemen also appear to have conferred the name Mt. Patricia upon the massif here referred to as Mt. Fryatt. The latter is thought to be more appropriate in conjunction with Mt. Edith Cavell, directly opposite on the other side of the valley of the Whirlpool.

References:

  • Cautley, Richard William [1873–1953], and Wheeler, Arthur Oliver [1860–1945]. Report of the Commission appointed to delimit the boundary between the Provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. Part II. 1917 to 1921. From Kicking Horse Pass to Yellowhead Pass.. Ottawa: Office of the Surveyor General, 1924. Whyte Museum
  • Canadian Board on Geographical Names. Place-names of Alberta. Published for the Geographic Board by the Department of the Interior. Ottawa: Department of the Interior, 1928. Hathi Trust
  • Canadian Rockies Databases. Mount Fryatt

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park Sheet 6

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

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 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
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Morrison Parsons Bridgland

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Morrison Parsons Bridgland

Morrison Parsons Bridgland

Morrison Parsons Bridgland
b. 1878 — Toronto, Ontario, Canada
d. 15 January 1948 — Toronto, Ontario, Canada

After graduation with honours from the University of Toronto in 1903, Bridgland, in company with Arthur Oliver Wheeler [1860–1945], undertook the detailed survey of the Selkirk Range of the Rocky Mountains by photographic method of surveying which had been developed by Dr. Edouard Deville, the then Surveyor General of Canada.

Bridgland gave practically his whole active field of service to this class of surveying and became recognized as a world authority in photographic surveying. He was the author of several papers dealing with optics and the mathematical solution of problems pertaining to the application of photographic information translated at scale to the flat map.

Bridgland lived in Calgary until his retirement in 1935. He was survived by his wife, Mary, and two sons, Charles and Edgar.

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. Alpine Club of Canada [accessed 4/2/2025]
  • —   “Report of the Chief Mountaineer [Paradise Valley camp].” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1908):122. Alpine Club of Canada [accessed 4/2/2025]
  • —   “Report of the Chief Mountaineer [Rogers Pass camp 1908].” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 2 (1909):118. Alpine Club of Canada [accessed 4/2/2025]
  • —  and Douglas, Robert [1881–1930]. Description of and Guide to Jasper Park. Ottawa: Department of the Interior, 1917. Parlks Canada History
  • —   “Jasper Park.” Canadian Alpine Journal, 10 (1919)
Bridgland is the namesake of the following place in the Mount Robson region:

Bridgland is credited with naming the following place:

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

  • 1906 ACC Camp – Yoho
  • 1907 ACC Camp – Paradise Valley
  • 1913 Interprovincial Boundary Commission
References:

  • Anon. “List of Members.” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 1 (1907):188. Alpine Club of Canada [accessed 2 April 2025]
  • 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

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.