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Title:Mapper of Mountains : M P Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930
Author:Ian S MacLaren, Eric Higgs & Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux
ISBN:0888644566 : 9780888644565
Illustrations:b/w illus & colour maps
Format:Paperback
Size:190x255mm
Pages:312
Weight: .686 Kg.
Published:University of Alberta Press - November 2005
List Price: 23.5 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Topography: Cartography; geodesy & geographic information syst: Canada


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 and tourists and mountain climbers with accurate topographical maps. Bridgland was also a great climber and co-founder of the Alpine Club of Canada. Mapper of Mountains 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.

Measuring the West Before Bridgland; Bridgland's Life and Times, 1878-1914; Bridgland's Survey of Jasper Park, 1915; M P Bridgland's Maps of Jasper; Bridgland's Life and Times, 1916-1948; Bridgland's Legacy; Index.