Mapper of Mountains follows the career of Dominion Land Surveyor Morrison Parsons Bridgland, who provided the first detailed maps of many regions of the Canadian Rockies. Between 1902 and 1930, this unheralded alpinist perfected phototopographical techniques to compile a series of mountaintop photographs during summers of field work, and spent his winters collating them to provide the Canadian government, tourists, and mountain climbers with accurate topographical maps. Bridgland was a great climber and co-founder of the Alpine Club of Canada. Mapper of Mountains also tells the story of the Rocky Mountain Repeat Photography Project, which studies the changes sustained in the Rockies, repeating the field work accomplished by Bridgland almost a century ago.
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-282) and index
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title Page 4
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- Foreword 10
- Preface 12
- Acknowledgements 16
- Abbreviations 18
- 1 Measuring the West Before Bridgland 20
- Early Explorers, Surveyors, and Map-makers 20
- The Advent of the Dominion Lands Survey 30
- Railway Survey in the Athabasca Valley, 1872 35
- Surveyors Strive to Stay Ahead of the Railway Builders 41
- Surveying the Canadian Rocky Mountains Using Phototopography 43
- Notes 56
- 2 Bridgland’s Life and Times 1878–1914 64
- Bridgland’s Roots 64
- Bridgland’s Early Years 67
- A Career of Adventure 70
- Bridgland’s First Year in the Mountains 77
- Rocks and Hard Places 79
- Surveying the Main Range of the Canadian Rockies 84
- Marriage and Family 86
- The Alpine Club of Canada Is Born 88
- The ACC’s First Annual Summer Camp, 1906 90
- ACC Summer Camps, 1907–1911 96
- Bridgland the Consummate Guide 99
- Triangulation Surveys of the Railway Belt, Crowsnest Forest Reserve, and Waterton Lakes Park 101
- Notes 110
- 3 Bridgland’s Survey of Jasper Park 1915 118
- One Last Photograph 118
- Creating a Park 120
- More Than a Normal Summer’s Work 125
- First Peak of the Season—Signal Mountain 131
- Bridgland’s Photographic Methods 137
- More Peaks and Valleys 140
- Inside Bridgland’s Dark-tent 142
- Surveying to the South and North 144
- A Day Off, A Life Lost 150
- August Along the Athabasca 152
- Autumn in the Valley 156
- Once Home in Calgary, the Challenge of Map-making 157
- Mapping from the Phototopographic Surveys 160
- The Art of Bridgland’s Photographs 164
- Bridgland’s Monumental Achievement 167
- Notes 168
- M.P. Bridgland's Maps of Jasper 179
- 4 Bridgland’s Life and Times 1916–1948 188
- M.P. Becomes an Author, 1916 188
- Bow River and Clearwater Forest Reserves, and Beyond, All the Way to Pitt Lake, 1917–1921 200
- Surveying Kootenay Park, 1922–1923 206
- Surveys Engineer, 1924–1931 210
- Forced Retirement 215
- Bridgland’s Later Life, 1931–1948 219
- Mapper of Mountains 223
- Notes 226
- 5 Bridgland’s Legacy 230
- Tracking Ecological and Cultural Changes by Photographs 230
- The Rocky Mountain Repeat Photography Project 233
- Comparing the Original and Repeat Photographs of Jasper 247
- Battling the Scythe of Old Man Time—Preserving Both Sets of Photographs 251
- Bridgland’s Legacy 255
- Notes 258
- Rocky Mountain Repeat Photography Project 263
- Appendices 284
- Sources 290
- Index 302
