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...Jasper, Alberta will be the starting point and the seven explorers will start from there on June 23 working their way up the Athabaska River to its head waters, which are on the northern slopes of the Columbia ice fields...
Except for the work of the Alberta-British Columbia Survey expedition and a party organized by H. S. Hall '19, Ostheimer will be the only man who has the made any sort of a comprehensive exploration in this region, and part of his work in fact, will involve the substantiation and elaboration of the reports made by these previous expeditions. The report of Hall, for example, in regard to the ice of Bruce Glacier which he traced into a canyon 20 by 100 feet will be followed up by Ostheimer and if possible he will make a more complete observation...
...only 8,000 feet high in this region, causes a variation in the direction of the flow of the glacial streams which makes all the water at times flow toward the Arctic and at other times toward the Pacific. Since these streams serve to distinguish the boundary lines between Alberta and British Columbia, observations, regarding them are desired by the Canadian government. At one time, in fact, the shifting of the courses of these streams was so erratic that one of the mountains of the range was sometimes included in the boundaries of British Columbia and sometimes was the property...
...Summer School will also offer for the first time in Cambridge a general course in Geology as well as a special field course to be conducted at Banff, in Alberta, Canada...
...daring reporter penetrated the aboriginal forest of the Canadian Pacific Railway at the Sportsman's--Show in Mechanics Hall Guided by Bassaqua the squaw woman, he was on the trail of Thomas Edmonds Wilson, dean of Canadian guides, in whose honor a monument has been erected at Takakka Falls, Alberta...