502 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
The ‘‘Kootenac”’ Indians are noted as occupying the western por- 
tion of the Rockies from Athabaska pass southward; the ‘‘Snare’’ 
Indians’ territory evidently included the upper Athabaska river and 
the ‘‘Stone’’ Indians were on the North Saskatchewan near fort 
Edmonton. The foregoing is interesting as proof of the accuracy of 
Dr. Dawson’s deductions respecting the recent immigration of the 
Stoneys into the Rockies, referred to on page 506. 
In 1841, Sir George Simpson crossed the Rockies but did not 
name any features except present Minnewanka lake which he named 
Peechee after his half-breed guide. Simpson’s name was, later, 
attached to the pass by which he crossed the Atlantic-Pacific watershed 
and to the river flowing westward from the summit of this pass. 
Berland creek in Sinclair pass was named by Dr. G. M. Dawson 
after the half-breed who met Simpson at the west end of the pass. 
In 1845, the famous missionary, Father De Smet, crossed the 
Rockies but did not name any features. He erected a cross on the 
Pacific-Atlantic watershed. His trip was commemorated by Dr. 
Dawson in (1) Morigeau creek, after a French-Canadian who met 
De Smet near the source of the Columbia river, (2) In Cross river, 
a tributary of the Kootenay and which is a translation of the Stoney 
name, ‘‘the river where a white man set up a cross,” (3) White Man 
pass, which commemorates the fact that De Smet traversed it. 
In 1857, Capt. John Palliser was instructed to explore ‘that por- 
tion of British North America which lies between the northern branch 
of the River Saskatchewan and the frontier of the United States 
and between the Red River and the Rocky Mountains.”’ He was also 
instructed ‘‘to ascertain whether one or more practicable passes exist 
over the Rocky Mountains within the British territory, and south of 
that known to exist between Mount Brown and Mount Hooker.”’ 
In 1858 and 1859, explorations were made in the Rockies by Capt. 
Palliser, Dr. Hector and Capt. Blakiston, R. A. Special credit should 
be given to Dr. Hector for his excellent work and to him is due practi- 
cally all the accurate geographical data in the Rocky mountains con- 
tained in the maps accompanying the report of the expedition. By a 
curious fatality, he examined all the passes but the best, the Yellow- 
head, which, although noted on his map, was not explored because his 
instructions explicitly limited him, on the north, to the Athabaska 
pass. | 
The members of the Palliser expedition were immortalised in 
Palliser river, after the commander, mount Bourgeau, after the 
botanist and Sullivan peak, after the Secretary and Asst. Astronomer. 
The omission of the names of Dr. (later, Sir)James Hector, the un- 
assuming geologist, and of Capt. Thos. Blakiston, R.A., magnetic 
