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Title:Canadian Rockies : New & Old Trails
Series:(Mountain Classics Collection)
Author:A P Coleman; Foreword by Chic Scott
ISBN:1894765761 : 9781894765763
Format:Paperback
Size:140x215mm
Pages:224
Weight: .238 Kg.
Published:Heritage House Publishing (Rocky Mountain Books) - September 2006
List Price: 13.5 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Climbing & mountaineering: Canada: Biography & autobiography: general


Arthur Philemon Coleman was a passionate Canadian and one of the first to truly discover the beauty and majesty of this country's mountain ranges as an explorer, geologist and mountaineer. In 1884, before the railway traversed the Rocky and Columbia mountains, Coleman headed west on the first of what would be eight mountaineering expeditions, making his way on foot and pack horse, with Native guides and without, over passes in Alberta and British Columbia. First published in 1911, this new edition gives modern-day readers a glimpse of the early days of mountaineering in the Canadian west. It paints a sympathetic picture of the rugged men and women who opened the region and of the hardships they endured. In his travels he encountered some of the main characters in Canadian mountaineering history, including Mary Schäffer, Joby Beaver, Frank Sibbald, Reverend George Kinney and Adolphus Moberly.

First Visit to the Rockies, 1884; Selkirk Trails, 1885; Canoeing on the Columbia, 1888; Trails of the Mountain Stonies, 1892; The Road to Athabasca Pass, 1893; A Month's Holiday, 1902; From Laggan to Mount Robson, 1907; From Edmonton to Mount Robson, 1908.