Alberta-BC boundary. Pass
Fraser River and Mackenzie River drainages
Headwaters of Moose River and Calumet Creek
53.2333 N 119.0167 W — Map 83E/3 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1911 (Walcott)
Name officially adopted in 1956
Official in BC – Canada
Fraser River and Mackenzie River drainages
Headwaters of Moose River and Calumet Creek
53.2333 N 119.0167 W — Map 83E/3 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1911 (Walcott)
Name officially adopted in 1956
Official in BC – Canada
This pass appears on:
Wheeler’s map Mount Robson 1912
Phillips’s map NW of Robson 1915
Boundary Commission Sheet 31 (surveyed in 1922)
Boundary Commission Sheet 32 (surveyed in 1922 &1924)
Wheeler’s map Mount Robson 1912
Phillips’s map NW of Robson 1915
Boundary Commission Sheet 31 (surveyed in 1922)
Boundary Commission Sheet 32 (surveyed in 1922 &1924)
View of Moose Pass and Tah Peak: our camp was in the forest on the right. Photo by R. C. W. Lett, by courtesy of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
National Geographic Magazine 1913
“As we crossed the beautiful Moose Pass on the Coleman trail of 1908 (6,700 feet = 2,042 meters), I noted that the pass was on the line of a fault that had displaced and tilted up a great block of limestones and shales,” wrote Charles Doolittle Walcott [1850–1927] during the 1911 Alpine Club of Canada–Smithsonian Robson Expedition to Mount Robson.
The Coleman trail was established by Arthur Philemon Coleman [1852–1939] on his unsuccessful attempts to climb Mount Robson in 1907 and 1908.
“Moose Pass station” appears on the 1912 topographical map of the Mount Robson region by surveyor Arthur Oliver Wheeler [1860–1945]
References:
- Coleman, Arthur Philemon [1852–1939]. The Canadian Rockies: New and Old Trails. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1911. Internet Archive
- Wheeler, Arthur Oliver [1860–1945]. “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
- Wheeler, Arthur Oliver [1860–1945]. “Topographical Map Showing Mount Robson and Mountains of the Continental Divide North of Yellowhead Pass to accompany the Report of the Alpine Club of Canada’s Expedition 1911. From Photographic Surveys by Arthur O. Wheeler; A.C.C. Director.” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 4 (1912):8-81
- Walcott, Charles Doolittle [1850–1927]. “The monarch of the Canadian Rockies.” National Geographic Magazine, (1913):626. Internet Archive
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