Alberta. River: Smoky River drainage
Headwaters at Chown Glacier
53.6867 N 119.4186 W — Map 083E11 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1912 (Wilkins)
Name officially adopted in 1928
Official in Canada
Headwaters at Chown Glacier
53.6867 N 119.4186 W — Map 083E11 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1912 (Wilkins)
Name officially adopted in 1928
Official in Canada
This river appears on:
Phillips’s map NW of Robson 1915
Jobe’s map Jarvis Pass to Yellowhead 1915
Pre-emptor’s map Tête Jaune 3H 1919
Boundary Commission Sheet 33 (surveyed in 1923)
Boundary Commission Sheet 34 (surveyed in 1923)
Boundary Commission Sheet 35 (surveyed in 1923)
Phillips’s map NW of Robson 1915
Jobe’s map Jarvis Pass to Yellowhead 1915
Pre-emptor’s map Tête Jaune 3H 1919
Boundary Commission Sheet 33 (surveyed in 1923)
Boundary Commission Sheet 34 (surveyed in 1923)
Boundary Commission Sheet 35 (surveyed in 1923)
Jackpine River is shown on the map of the area north and west of Mount Robson by Donald “Curly” Phillips [1884–1938]. Bert Wilkins mentions that Phillips trapped along the Jackpine in 1912.
References:
- Wilkins, Bert. Jasper: Jasper Yellowhead Archives. “What Curlie told me regarding his climb of Mt. Robson” (1909).
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