North America, Canada, Purcell Range of British Columbia

Publication Year: 1947.

Purcell Range of British Columbia. The Department of Lands, Victoria, B. C., issued in 1943 a new map which has just become available to the public: 4G Windermere (two miles to one inch, uncontoured). To mountaineers its chief interest will be in the section between Horsethief and Findlay Creeks, but unfortunately it covers only a short stretch of the main watershed and does not extend far enough westward to include Farnham Creek or the Lake of the Hanging Glaciers.

Among the higher mountains, the following are indicated: Mt. Slade, Mt. Farnham, Mt. Delphine, Mt. Peter, Nelson Peak, Monument Peak and Coppercrown Mountain.

A portion of the watershed between Dutch and Farnham Creeks contains the following new names, which apparently may now be considered official: Saffron Peak, Mt. Rowand, Trikootenay Peak, Mt. Morigeau. St. Maur Mountain appears between Dutch and Findlay Creeks.

All elevations agree with those presented in my Purcell Range of British Columbia (1946).

The companion map, 4F Lardeau, is soon to be issued on the same basis. It will cover the remaining major portion of the Purcell watershed, and should be watched for with interest.

J. M. T.