Hooker and Brown

Spread 'em out and you will find: Maps Lie. Always.

Anyway you do it, when you take a representation down a scale (off of the 1:1 of real life), you lose something. Sometimes you make choices. Sometimes these are deliberate misleadings.

Here's Mt. Assiniaboine, with the topo map for that area.

This is all it's really
telling you about the mountain.

GPS is even worse. Don't get me started. Mountains on the southern horizon and wet pine needles blanketing the signals. Tiny screen showing direction and roads. No cliffs, no landmarks, no horizon. Usually no signal.

I said, don't get me started...

Check out Mark Monmonier's book "How To Lie With Maps".

You'll be stunned at how much distortion there really is - political, copyright, economic....

For the rest of this collection, click to open a pop-up window of the map at a higher resolution.
Note: This feature is coming as soon as I can get high-res versions of these maps.

Here's Norman Collie's map of the Rockies and Mounts Hooker and Brown.

Note the two of them standing, far to the north, surrounded by blank space.

I wish our maps were still like this!

This is the Google Maps' view of Hooker and Brown.

Overlayed with Norman Collie's Map showing the locations of the principle mountains from the novel.

These are the principle mountains:

Mt. Gordon

Mt. Forbes

Mt. Columbia

Mt. Hooker

Mt. Brown

Many thanks to Dave Birrel's PeakFinder.com - the best resource for Canadian Rockies history and mountain facts on the web.

Here are the maps and atlases of the times:

	Map of North America - 1351
	Comparative Heights of the World's Mountians William Gardner - 1823
	Arrowsmith - 1844 (National Boundary Survey)
	Arrowsmith - 1844 (Zoomed In a Bit)
	Arrowsmith - 1844 (Zoomed In a Bit More)
	James Hector's Map Palliser Expedition - 1860
	Map of Western Canada - 1871
	Map of North America - 1855
	Atlas by Keith Johnston - 1861
	Rand McNally Atlas - 1897