McEvoy’s map Yellowhead Pass 1900

Map Showing Yellowhead Pass Route From Edmonton To Tête-Jaune Cache. James McEvoy, 1900.

Map Showing Yellowhead Pass Route From Edmonton To Tête-Jaune Cache. James McEvoy, 1900.
Natural Resources Canada [accessed 12 October 2026]


Map Showing Yellowhead Pass Route From Edmonton To Tête-Jaune Cache. James McEvoy, 1900. (Detail)

Map Showing Yellowhead Pass Route From Edmonton To Tête-Jaune Cache.
James McEvoy, 1900. (Detail)
Natural Resources Canada [accessed 12 October 2026]

Map
showing the Yellowhead Pass Route
from
Edmonton to Tête-Jaune Cache
1900

Compiled and drawn by J. McEvoy, B.A.Sc., from surveys by J. McEvoy, Topological Surveys Branch & Canadian Pacific Railways.

In 1898 James McEvoy [1862–1935] of the Geological Survey of Canada surveyed the Athabasca River valley for about 240 kilometres east of the Yellowhead Pass, and down the Fraser River on the west side of the pass for another 120 kilometres.

The splendid report of James McEvoy, published by the Geological Survey of Canada in 1900, dealing with the geology and natural history resources of the country traversed by the Yellowhead Pass route from Edmonton to Tête-Jaune Cache, contains the most comprehensive and reliable geographical information that has yet been published, and also contains the only geographical map published of that route on a sufficiently large scale to be of value.

— Arthur Oliver Wheeler [1860–1945], 1912
References:

  • McEvoy, James E., P.L.S. [1862–1935]. Report on the geology and natural resources of the country traversed by the Yellowhead Pass route from Edmonton to Tête Jaune Cache comprising portions of Alberta and British Columbia. Ottawa: Geological Survey of Canada, 1900. Natural Resources Canada
  • McEvoy, James E., P.L.S. [1862–1935]. “Map Showing Yellowhead Pass Route From Edmonton To Tête-Jaune Cache.” Geological Survey of Canada (1900). Natural Resources Canada [accessed 10 March 2025]
  • Wheeler, Arthur Oliver [1860–1945], and Smithsonian Institution [founded 1846]. “The Alpine Club of Canada’s expedition to Jasper Park, Yellowhead Pass and Mount Robson region, 1911.” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 4 (1912):9-80. Alpine Club of Canada [accessed 2 April 2025]

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