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Canadian National Railway map 1925

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Rand McNally railway map [detail], 1925

Rand McNally railway map [detail], 1925

[1020] Excerpted from a Rand McNally map dated March 1925, reproduced in the March 1928 issue of the Official Railway Equipment Register.
This map includes:
Albreda (CNoR railway point)
Canoe River (railway point)
Clemina
Croydon
Guilford
Jackman (railway point)
Jasper
Lempriere
Longworth
Lucerne (CNoR railway point)
McBride
Mount Robson (railway point)
Rainbow (GTP railway point)
Raush Valley (railway point)
Red Pass Junction
Rooney
Shere
Snaring
Swift Creek (railway point)
Urling
Yellowhead (railway point)
References:

  • Bohi, Charles W., and Kozma, Leslie S. Canadian National’s Western Stations. Don Mills, Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2002

Snaring

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Alberta. Railway point and locality
Between Interlaken and Henry House (CNoR) on Canadian National Railway
53.075 N 118.0783 W — Map 083E01 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1956
Official in Canada
33 miles east of the Yellowhead Pass on the Canadian National Railway
Canadian Northern Railway station built in 1915
This railway point and locality appears on:
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway map ca. 1918
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway map 1919
Canadian National Railway map 1925
References:

  • Bohi, Charles W., and Kozma, Leslie S. Canadian National’s Western Stations. Don Mills, Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2002
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Jasper House

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Alberta. Former fur trade post and railway point
34 km NE of Jasper on Canadian National Railway
53.1383 N 117.9806 W — Map 083F04 — Google — GeoHack
Not currently an official name.
40 miles east of the Yellowhead Pass on the Canadian National Railway
This former fur trade post and railway point appears on:
Milton and Cheadle’s map 1865
Trutch’s map of BC 1871
Hanington’s map Smoky River Pass 1875
Tolmie and Dawson map Indian Tribes of BC 1884
Frederick Talbot’s map GTP 1910
Collie’s map Yellowhead Pass 1912
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway ticket 1914
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway stations
Jasper House East Side Rocky Mountains Paul Kane. Field sketch, November 7, 1847

Jasper House East Side Rocky Mountains
Paul Kane. Field sketch, November 7, 1847
Wikipedia

Also called ”Jasper’s House.”
References:

  • Kane, Paul [1810–1871]. Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America. From Canada to Vancouver’s Island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and back again. London: Longman, Brown, 1859. Internet Archive
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Interlaken

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Alberta. Former railway point
E of Jasper on Canadian National Railway
53°5’52” N 117°59’39” W — Map 083F04 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1912 (GTP map)
Not currently an official name.
20 miles east of the Yellowhead Pass on the Canadian National Railway
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway station built in 1913. Abandoned on site in 1921; turned over to Parks Department in 1923, for use as base for Park fire rangers.
This station appears on:

Grand Trunk Pacific map from around 1912
Grand Trunk Pacific ticket from 1914
Grand Trunk Pacific map from around 1918

Interlaken was between Jasper House and Henry House on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Possibly situated between Jasper Lake and Talbot Lake.

Bohi records it as being in Edson Division, Pocahontas Branch, of the
Canadian National Railway, originally a Type E Depot (Plan100-152) built by the GTP in 1913. Abandoned on site in 1921; turned over to Parks Department in 1923, for use as base for Park fire rangers.

(Interlaken is a resort town located between two lakes in the mountainous Bernese Oberland region of central Switzerland, the home town of guides Edouard Feuz, Jr., and Gottfried Feuz, who worked in Canada.)

References:

  • Bridgland, Morrison P. [1878–1948]. “Report of the Chief Mountaineer [Yoho camp].” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 1 (1907):131. Alpine Club of Canada
  • Bohi, Charles W., and Kozma, Leslie S. Canadian National’s Western Stations. Don Mills, Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2002

Albreda (Grand Trunk Pacific Railway)

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British Columbia. Former railway point
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway between Mount Robson and Tête Jaune station
53.4608 N 119.3028 W Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1912
Not currently an official name.
This former railway point appears on:
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway map [ca. 1912]
Wheeler’s map Mount Robson 1912
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway ticket 1914
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway map ca. 1918
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway map 1919
Pre-emptor’s map Tête Jaune 3H 1919
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway stations

On the 1912 map of Mount Robson by Arthur Oliver Wheeler [1860–1945] and a Grand Trunk Pacific Railway map from around 1912 there is an “Albreda” station between Tête Jaune Cache and Mount Robson.

The current Albreda railway point is on the North Thompson River.

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Mount Cavell

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Alberta. Railway point
Former name
52.8853 N 118.3803 W Google — GeoHack
Not currently an official name.
5 miles east of the Yellowhead Pass on the Canadian National Railway
This railway point appears on:
Boundary Commission Sheet 29 (surveyed in 1917)
Boundary Commission Sheet 29 A (surveyed in 1917)

Former station name on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, between Geikie and Yellowhead Pass.

Undoubtedly related to British nurse Edith Cavell, namesake of nearby Mount Edith Cavell, which was named in 1916.

Cottonwood Creek

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British Columbia. Creek: Fraser River drainage
Flows S into head of Fraser River, below Yellowhead Lake
52.8722 N 118.6861 W — Map 083D15 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1956
Official in BC – Canada

Adopted in 1956 on Jasper National Park map, as labelled on BC Reference Map 18A (date not cited).

There are only 10 Cottonwood Creeks in Canada.

References:

Seven Sisters

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British Columbia. Former unofficial name
Yellowhead Mountain, above Yellowhead Lake
52.8811 N 118.6156 W Google — GeoHack
Not currently an official name.
Seven Sisters Yellowhead Lake, Lucerne, B.C. William James Topley, 1914

Seven Sisters Yellowhead Lake, Lucerne, B.C.
William James Topley, 1914
Library and Archives Canada


Mr. C. H. Cummings cottage Yellowhead Lake, Lucerne, B.C. (with Seven Sister Peaks). William James Topley, 1914

Mr. C. H. Cummings cottage Yellowhead Lake, Lucerne, B.C. (with Seven Sister Peaks).
William James Topley, 1914
Library and Archives Canada

Photographer William James Topley [1845–1930] accompanied Arthur Conan Doyle [1859–1930] on his family trip to Jasper National Park of Canada in 1914.

A special train was organized to take Conan Doyle, his wife, and friends to visit the area near Mount Robson. The mountain, located just over the Alberta border in British Columbia, is one of the highest and most iconic mountains in the Canadian Rockies. William Topley, the celebrated Ottawa photographer, dutifully took these photos.

References:

  • Library and Archives Canada. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Tour of Western Canada – Visit to Jasper National Park. 2015. Library and Archives Canada
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