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Mapper of Mountains
M.P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930
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English
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2005
About this book
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.
B&W illustrations, colour maps, notes, bibliography, index
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Contributor: I.S. MacLaren
I.S. MacLaren teaches at the University of Alberta in the Department of History and Classics and the Department of English and Film Studies. Mapper of Mountains: M.P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902–1930 (2005) is his biography of the Dominion Land Surveyor whose phototopographic work in Jasper in 1915 created the first reliable maps of the area and made possible, eight decades later, the Rocky Mountain Repeat Photography Project.
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Contributor: Eric Higgs
Eric Higgs directs the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria.
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Contributor: Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux
Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux is Senior Researcher at UTSB Research. She lives in Banff, Alberta.
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Contents
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Foreword
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Preface
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Acknowledgements
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ONE Measuring the West Before Bridgland EXPLORING, SURVEYING, AND MAPPING
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TWO Bridgland’s Life and Times 1878–1914
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THREE Bridgland’s Survey of Jasper Park 1915
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M.P. BRIDGLAND’S MAPS OF JASPER
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FOUR Bridgland’s Life and Times 1916–1948
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FIVE Bridgland’s Legacy CULTURE, ECOLOGY, AND RESTORATION IN JASPER NATIONAL PARK, AND THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REPEAT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN REPEAT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT
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Appendices
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Sources
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Index
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Biography
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For a non-specialist adult audience
