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observer, was repaired in 1884, when Dr. Dawson attached their 
names to prominent peaks. As Blakiston quarrelled with Palliser 
and refused to obey his instructions, his surveys were only partially 
incorporated in the general map of the expedition. 
The Palliser expedition named mountain ranges after One 
Brisco, of the 11th Hussars and Mr. Mitchell who were on a hunting 
trip and accompanied Palliser on some of his journeys. 
Peaks were named after four Presidents of the Royal Society, 
Maj. Gen. Sabine, 1852-53, Rev. T. R. Robinson, 1849-50, Sir Chas. 
Lyell, 1864-65, and Sir Roderick Murchison, 1846-47. Mountains 
were named after John Gould, British naturalist, John Hutton Balfour, 
Scottish botanist, David Forbes, Scottish geologist, John Goodsir, 
Professor of Anatomy, Edinburgh University, Francis Galton, Eng- 
lish scientific writer and African explorer, the famous David Living- 
stone, missionary and African explorer, Sir John Lefroy, scientist 
and founder of the Meteorological Service of Canada, John Ball, 
Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Sir Edmund Head, then 
Governor General of Canada, after Dr. John Rae, Sir George Back 
and Sir John Richardson, Arctic explorers, after Stanford, the English 
geographer, Rundle, a missionary who laboured among the Stoneys, 
and Archdeacon Hunter, Red River colony. 
Kananaskis is the name of an Indian of whom there is a legend 
giving an account of his most wonderful recovery from the blow of 
an axe which had stunned but failed to kill him. Crowsnest mountain, 
pass, river, lake and railway station do not commemorate a slaughter 
of Crow Indians in a corner or “‘nest’’ as set forth in local tradition 
but only a commonplace occurrence, viz., the nesting of crows near 
the base of the peak. 
In 1859, the Earl of Southesk entered the Rockies from the head- 
waters of the McLeod; thence, by the Rocky, Brazeau and North Sas- 
katchewan waters, he made his way southward to the Bow river. He 
added some geographical data respecting the Brazeau. 
In 1863, Lord Milton and Dr. Cheadle crossed the Rockies by 
the Yellowhead pass and descended the North Thompson. Their 
interesting narrative was wholly the work of Cheadle and the accom- 
panying map supplements the Palliser Expedition map. 
In the late summer of 1882 and in the seasons of 1883 and 1884, 
Dr. Geo. M. Dawson made explorations in the Rockies between the 
49th parallel and lat. 53°. A few names given by him have already 
been referred to. His surveys were, for various reasons, much more 
accurate and detailed than those of his predecessors. In addition 
to naming numerous features, he identified nearly all the peaks and 
