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Palliser expedition. Field is after Cyrus Field of Atlantic cable fame. 
Moberly is after an engineer employed on exploratory work in the 
Rockies and Selkirks in the early ‘sixties’ and ‘seventies.’ He dis- 
covered Eagle pass and western portion of Rogers pass. 
In June, 1886, the Canadian Pacific railway was opened. This 
stimulated exploration by giving easy access to the mountains. 
From 1886 to 1892, J. J. McArthur was engaged upon photo- 
topographical surveys of the mountains in the vicinity of the main line 
of the Canadian Pacific and westward to long. 116° 10’W. (approx.). 
From 1888 to 1892, W. L. Drewry was engaged upon triangulation in 
the same region and topographical work in the Crowsnest district. 
In 1893, W. D. Wilcox and S. E. S. Allen made reconnaissance 
surveys in the region adjoining and to the westward of the area 
surveyed by McArthur and Drewry. Later, Wilcox extended his ex- 
plorations northward to the Athabaska waters. 
In 1894 and following years, Prof. Chas. E. Fay, Philip Abbot, 
C. S. Thompson and G. M. Weed of the Appalachian Mountain Club, 
Prof. H. B. Dixon, Prof. J. N. Collie, G. P. Baker, H. E. M. Stutfield, 
Rev. Jas. Outram and Edward Whymper of the Alpine Club, Jean 
Habel of Berlin and many others were attracted by the numerous 
unclimbed peaks and untrodden valleys. In 1892 and 1893, Dr. 
A. P. Coleman explored between Morley and the Athabaska pass and 
determined the altitude of mounts Brown and Hooker to be about 
10,000 feet, instead of the 16,000 to 17,000 they had hitherto been 
credited with. In 1902, he explored the valley of the Brazeau river. 
Messrs. Wilcox, Stutfield, Collie and Coleman added much 
material to existing maps. So far as the region between the Red 
Deer river and the North Saskatchewan was concerned, however, 
it had all been mapped by the writer though it remained unpublished 
until 1909 when it was incorporated in a map of the Rockies published 
by the Dept. of the Interior. 
From 1900 to 1907, A. O. Wheeler was engaged upon a photo- 
topographical survey of the mountains between the western limit 
of the surveys by McArthur and Drewry and the Columbia river. 
In 1911, he made a similar survey of the Mount Robson region. 
In 1913, the delimitation of the boundary between Alberta and 
British Columbia was begun near the 49th parallel. In connection 
with it a photo-topographical survey of the Rockies east of the water- 
shed to approximate latitude 51°-28’N. has been made. 
The foregoing review is merely a sketch of the principal explor- 
ations in the southern Rockies and does not pretend to narrate them 
in detail. 
