Summary Report of the Operations of the Geological and Natural History SurveyMaclean, Roger & Company, 1887 - Geology |
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ALFRED R. C. SELWYN Annual Report Archæan argillites asbestos Attawapishkat beds belt British Columbia Brunswick Cambro-Silurian Canada Canadian Pacific Railway canoe Carboniferous coal coast collected connection continue Coste Creek Cretaceous crystalline Dease Lake deposits detailed Devonian district east Eastern Townships examined Exhibition exploration extending feet field formations fossils Geological Survey gneiss gold graptolites hills Huronian inch Indian iron Island Lake Temiscaming latter Laurentian left Ottawa Liard Liard River limestone McConnell Messrs mineral mining Mountain Museum northern occupied occur Ontario Ottawa county Pelly Pictou points Port Arthur portage portion province of Quebec quartz Rainy Lake range reached region rocks route schists season serpentine shales sheet shore side Silurian silver slates specimens of fossils spruce square miles Stikine stream summer surface Thetford thickness tons track survey trail Trenton limestone upper valley veins vicinity Whiteaves Yukon
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Page 33 - The Invertebrata of the Laramie and Cretaceous Rocks of the vicinity of the Bow and Belly rivers and adjacent localities in the North-west Territory J
Page 9 - ... to the eastern ranges of the Rocky Mountains in the vicinity of the Mackenzie River. This portion of the Cordillera region, together with that of the more southern part of British Columbia, gives an aggregate length of between...
Page 6 - Lewes, and reach the coast before the smaller lakes near the mountains were frozen over. I therefore decided to set about the building of another boat, suitable for the ascent of the Lewes, and on the second day after we had begun work Mr. Ogilvie very opportunely appeared. After having completed our boat and obtained Mr. Ogilvie's preliminary report and survey sheets, together with the necessary provisions, we began the ascent of the Lewes...
Page 5 - River, where our work may have said to have begun, till the 18th of May. Here Mr. McConnell stayed behind, for the purpose of getting Indians and canoes to enable him to make a micrometer survey of the Stikine from the end of the line measured by Mr. J. Hunter in 1877, to Telegraph Creek, while I proceeded up the river by the first steamer of the season to Telegraph Creek, the head of navigation. From this place, goods are carried by pack animals to Dease Lake, the centre of the Cassiar mining district...
Page 39 - ... and natural history subjects subscribed for. The number of volumes bound was 281. The letters received in connection with matters relating to the Library and the distribution of the geological publications were 1,2 11, whereas those sent out during the same period were 1,315.
Page 6 - July, and after spending a few days in examining and mapping the lake, making the observations necessary to fix its position, and in the endeavor to find some Indian trail by which we might travel across to the Pelly, we began the work of portaging on the 17th. "As we had been unable to discover any route now in use by the Indians, and no trace whatever remained...
Page 9 - ... deposits of the precious metals. The width of this particular part of the Cordillera belt is also great, as it appears, so far as our explorations have gone, to extend from, the coat-t to the eastern ranges of the Rocky Mountains in the vicinity of the . Mackenzie River.
Page 7 - Cretaceous age, and here again, although the two formations differ so widely in respect 10 age, one overlies the other without any perceptible break, and the separation of one from the other is rendered more difficult by the fact that the upper beds of the Carboniferous are lithologically almost precisely similar to those of the Cretaceous.
Page 6 - Indians, and no trace whatever remained of the tiail employed by the Hudson Bay Company in former years, and as no local Indians could be found to act as guides or to assist in carrying our stuff, it was evident that the crossing of this portage (which had been estimated by Mr. Campbell at about 70 miles in length) would be a difficult matter, and that we might indeed find it impossible to cairy over a sufficient sipply of provisions for further work on the Pelly.
Page 9 - This may serve as an index of the probable commercial results of a similar development of placer mining alone in any portion of the Yukon territory. "The prospective value of the Yukon district and northern part of British Columbia as a mining region I believe to be great. This region...