Established August 1991, containing 49 ha. more or less. “The Rearguard Falls viewpoint provides an excellent opportunity for travelers to witness the end of a long journey by the Chinook, largest of the Pacific salmon.”
Map of New British Columbia
Showing Line of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Author’s Route From Wolf Creek to Prince Rupert
F. A. Talbot, New Garden of Canada, 1911 [accessed 15 February 2025]
Map of New British Columbia
Showing Line of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
and Author’s Route From Wolf Creek to Prince Rupert
British travel author Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot [1880–1924] traversed the Yellowhead Pass in 1910, one year ahead of the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Talbot was hired by the railway to cross Canada and report the potential of the areas being opened up. Two books, published in London, resulted from the trip: New garden of Canada: By Pack-horse and Canoe through Undeveloped New British Columbia, (1911), and The Making of a Great Canadian Railway (1912). In 1924, while living in Pointe-Claire, Québec, Talbot was sent to Calgary to make arrangements for the arrival of the Prince of Wales, Edward VIII, to ceremoniously travel the complete rail line. But at 44 years old, Talbot contracted pneumonia in Calgary and died.
Frederick Talbot was not the namesake of Mount Talbot or Talbot Lake.
Adopted 7 December 1990 on 83 E/3 as a well-established local name.
Fred Brewster fonds. V86/M53. Includes scrapbook titled “Mt. Sir Alexander,” 1912-1967, attributed to Fred Brewster (1887).
Three beautiful atlases accompanied the Boundary volumes.
Sketch map of part of the Cariboo Range
A. C. Fabergé 1949
Canadian Alpine Journal 1950
By A. C. Fabergé, 1949
The central Cariboos are a region of high peaks, big glaciers and vast snowfields. Little can be seen from the valleys, and to appreciate the charm of these mountains one must go high. There, one is in a world of severe black cliffs set among the wonderfully precise curved surfaces of snow formations, of rock peaks with ridges sharply outlined by fantastic cornices. It is hoped that Arnold Wexler’s article in this issue and the map may encourage others to visit this region. The map is based on prismatic compass bearings from a number of vantage points, and on measurements of photographs. It is in every sense a cooperative effort, and several members of the 1949 party contributed to it. It is strictly confined to what we actually saw, and should be consulted together with Zillmer’s map (C.A.J., XXXI, 1948, p. 24) which covers more territory. To avoid overloading the map, the names of peaks have been abbreviated, thus Laurier-Mt. Sir Wilfred Laurier, etc. It may here be noted that Holway’s Penny and Aha are in all probability identical with the unnamed points 10,075 and 10,225 respectively, of Carpé, mentioned on page 151 of the 2nd edition of Thorington’s Guide to the Interior Ranges of British Columbia.
Some of our observations on passes may be of use to future climbers. The Tête-Forks basin pass is easy on both sides. The west side of Gunboat (Tête-Gilmour) Pass deserves a word of caution: there are some very large and almost impassable crevasses in the middle of the glacier. One may either go to the Tête-Forks Pass and thence follow Gunboat Ridge (or better the level glacial shelf on its west) or, alternatively, up the true left side of the glacier close to Aha Mountain.
The Tête Jaune-Canoe Pass marked on the map is the most convenient passage between the two valleys; it was also used by Zillmer in 1947, and is easily identified on the north side difficulties in crossing the by pass and the small spur jutting into the Tête Jaune Glacier immediately west of the pass. There are no difficulties in crossing the pass and in reaching the small glacial lakes. The main Canoe icefall cannot be tackled directly, and a band a of cliffs extends far down the true left side of this glacier. We found a convenient passage through these cliffs. Just south of the lakes there is a characteristic knoll covered with heather and dwarf spruce; if one descends immediately to the left of this knoll, keeping as close as possible to its steep sides, one is brought to a grass band which crosses the cliff and gives access to the lower Canoe Glacier. We did not go down to the Rausch, but we are almost certain that the glacier between Hostility and Sir Wilfred Laurier provides a convenient way, the icefall being by-passed along the slopes of Sir John Abbott.
David Pass is easy and needs no comment. The Chamberlin-Carpé Pass, apparently the only high level passage to the McLennan III basin, involves steep snow and a bergschrund which might under some conditions give trouble.
Sketch map of McLennan River and Canoe River
By Joel Nord and Raymond T. Zillmer 1946.
Canadian Alpine Journal 1947
Sketch map of sources of Thompson, Raush and Azure rivers in the Cariboo Range, B.C.
Raymond T. Zillmer 1939
Canadian Alpine Journal 1939
Sketch map of McLennan River and Canoe River
By Joel Nord and Raymond T. Zillmer 1946.
Canadian Alpine Journal 1947
Sketch map Cariboo Range
Raymond T. Zillmer, 1947
Canadian Alpine Journal 1948
Sketch map of part of the Cariboo Mountains
W.A.D. Munday Canadian Alpine Journal 1925
Most of the names on this map that are still in use were proposed previous to Munday, except perhaps “Thompson Icefield,” now “Thompson Glacier.” Many of the names were superseded in 1927 by the Order in Council that created the Premier Range.
Mount Aspiration [now Mount John Oliver]
Bivouac Peak [former name]
Cariboo Mountains
Mount Challenger [now Mount Stanley Baldwin]
Mount David Thompson [now Mount Sir John Thompson]
David Glacier
Gunboat Mountain [as Gunboat Ridge]
Holways Peak [now Penny Mountain]
Mount Hostility [now Mount Mackenzie King]
Incisor Peak [former name]
Kiwa Creek
Kiwa Peak [former name]
Sand Creek [now Tête Creek]
Thompson Glacier [as Thompson Icefield]
Mount Titan [now Mount Sir Wilfrid Laurier]
Mount Welcome [former name]