Identifier: climbsexploratio00stut (find matches)
Title: Climbs & exploration in the Canadian Rockies
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Stutfield, Hugh Edward Millington, 1858-1929. (from old catalog) Collie, Norman, 1859-1942, joint author
Subjects: Rocky mountains Mountaineering
Publisher: London, New York and Bombay, Longmans, Green and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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out in1857 by the Government to explore thatportion of British North America which liesbetween the northern branch of the RiverSaskatchewan and the frontier of the UnitedStates, and between the Red River and theRocky Mountains. In addition to this theGovernment wished to ascertain whether anypractical pass or passes, available for horses,existed across the Rocky Mountains withinBritish territory, and south of that known toexist between Mount Brown and MountHooker in latitude 54° 10 (the AthabascaPass). During his explorations in conjunction with Dr. Hector and others, the Kananaskis Pass, the Vermilion Pass, and the British Kootanie Pass were discovered and mapped, whilst Dr. Hector by himself discovered the Kicking Horse Pass, and also traversed the Howse Pass (or Howes Pass). This pass had at that time, 1859, been abandoned for such a long period that he hardly found any trace of the trail that had once existed, when the North-Western Fur Company used the route for communicating 8
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HISTORICAL with their posts on the Pacific at the beginningof the century. Although PaUiser and his party had exploredall these passes through the Rocky Mountains,yet that immense area which lies between theRocky Mountains and the Pacific coast andcomprises the Selkirk Mountains and the Cas-cade Range, formed an impassable barrier, anda road through it was never made. To quotePallisers report: The connection, therefore,of the Saskatchewan Plains, east of the RockyMountains, with a known route through BritishColumbia has been effected by the expeditionunder my command, without our having beenunder the necessity of passing through anyportion of United States territory. Still, theknowledge of the country on the whole wouldnever lead me to advocate a line of communi-cation from Canada across the continent to thePacific exclusively through British territory.The time has now for ever gone by for effectingsuch an object, and the unfortunate choice ofan astronomical boundary line has complete

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