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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
Alberta’s Land Surveying History

Morrison Parsons Bridgland [1878–1948]

b. 1878 — Toronto, Ontario, Canada
d. 1948 — Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Morrison Parsons Bridgland [1878–1948]

Sources of biographical information about Bridgland:

  • 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
  • Anon. “List of Members.” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 1 (1907):188
Bridgland is the namesake of the following places in the Mount Robson region:

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

  • 1906 ACC Camp – Yoho
  • 1907 ACC Camp – Paradise Valley
  • 1913 Interprovincial Boundary Commission formed
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
  • —   “Report of the Chief Mountaineer [Paradise Valley camp].” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1908):122
  • —   “Report of the Chief Mountaineer [Rogers Pass camp 1908].” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 2 (1909):118
  • —   “Jasper Park.” Canadian Alpine Journal, 10 (1919)

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.

Mary Schäffer Warren

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Mary T. S. Schäffer Warren [1861–1939]

b. 1861 Pennsylvania, USA
d. 1939 — Banff, Alberta, Canada

Mary Townsend Sharples (Schaffer) (Warren), 1861-1939, was born to moderately wealthy Quaker parents at Westchester, Pennsylvania. She first visited the Canadian Rockies and Selkirk Mountains in 1888 with her friend Mary Vaux and returned the next year with her husband, Dr. Charles Schaffer.

Sources of biographical information about Schäffer Warren:

Events in the Mount Robson region in which Schäffer Warren was involved:

  • 1907 Schaffer meets Coleman in Wilcox Pass
  • 1908 Mary Schäffer YHP
Works pertinent to the Mount Robson region of which Schäffer Warren was author or co-author:

  • —   Mary Schaffer fonds M79 / V527 (1907–1911).
  • —   Old Indian trails. Incidents of camp and trail life, covering two years’ exploration through the Rocky Mountains of Canada. [1907 and 1908]. New York: Putnam, 1911. Internet Archive
  • —   “Sergeant Sidney J. Unwin, Canadian Artillery [in Memoriam].” Canadian Alpine Journal, 8 (1917):107-108
  • —   A hunter of peace : Mary T.S. Schaffer’s Old Indian Trails of the Canadian Rockies ; incidents of camp and trail life, covering two years’ exploration through the Rocky Mountains of Canada ; including a previously unpublished account : the 1911 expedition to Maligne Lake and Yahe-Weha – Mountain Woman, a portrait of Mary Schaffer Warren. Edited by Edward J. Hart. 1980