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	Palliser Expedition
		The Palliser Expedition (British North American Exploring Expedition), 1857-60, was initiated by John PALLISER, who submitted to the Royal Geographical Society a plan to travel from RED RIVER COLONY to and through the Rocky Mountains along the unsurveyed American boundary.
		Under Palliser's command, Dr James HECTOR was appointed geologist and naturalist, Eugène BOURGEAU botanical collector and John W. Sullivan secretary and astronomical observer.
		The expedition's reports (published in 1859, 1860 and 1863) and its comprehensive map (1865) were for some time the major source of information about the sweep of country from Lake Superior to BC's Okanagan Valley, and are still of value today.
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		Palliser would have been surprised to learn how often the world’s wheat championship would be won by samples grown in that area.
		The expedition was to be under the leadership of Captain John Palliser and included James Hector as surgeon and geologist, Eugene Bourgeau, botanist, John W. Sullivan as secretary and Thomas Blackiston as the astronomer.
		Captain John Palliser, an adventurous Irishman whose name has become one of the most familiar in Western Canadian history, was born in Ireland in 1817 and for a time served as sheriff of Waterford County in that country.
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	Palliser Expedition - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Palliser Expedition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Palliser Expedition was a British expedition that explored and surveyed the open prairies and rugged wilderness of western Canada from 1857 to 1860.
		After three more years of publishing the details of the expedition, Palliser presented his report to the British Parliament in 1863.
		Palliser's Triangle was first explored by this expedition and they reported back that this region was too arid for agriculture, a finding that was overruled by later officials much to the detriment of those who have tried to farm there.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Palliser-Expedition.html (180 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
		Palliser was one of the few men with experience of travel on the prairies who was detached from the growing controversy about the future of western British North America.
		Palliser hunted and examined the country south and east of the fort and then, with two newly arrived friends, Captain Arthur Brisco and William Roland Mitchell, travelled to Rocky Mountain House (Alta) to get to know the Blackfoot and Piegan Indians who frequented it, as he planned to travel through their country the next season.
		Palliser sent Sullivan eastward from Fort Shepherd (B.C.) on the Columbia River while he himself forced a way west through difficult country until, near modern Midway (B.C.), he fell in with an American party engaged on the Boundary Survey of 1857—62.
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	Palliser's Triangle - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Palliser's Triangle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Palliser's Triangle is a geographic area mostly in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan.
		It was named after John Palliser who lead an survey expedition to Canada's west that first remarked on this area.
		When Palliser discovered it was a dry land with no trees that he thought would be unsuitable for growing crops.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Pallisers-Triangle.html (264 words)

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		Palliser's expedition was a success in that his report contributed to the overall knowledge of the region.
		The name "Palliser" was chosen to pay tribute to one of the earliest explorers of the region: one whose main task it was to ascertain the agricultural feasibility of the territory.
		This strength of character which was found in the explorers and the pioneers is a character trait that Palliser Regional Schools hopes to pass on to the students of the region both through the nature of education provided and through the name that their school system bears.
	www.pallisersd.ab.ca /tech/sis/bulletin/history.html (557 words)

	Studies in Canadian Literature
		Captain Palliser was not alone on this venture but neither was he accompanied by fellow sportsmen: his companions included Eugene Bourgeau (1813-1877), a prominent Swiss botanist, James Hector (1834-1907), a Scottish geologist, John W. Sullivan (1836-?), the sextant observer and secretary from the Greenwich Naval School, and, later, Thomas Blakiston (1836-?) the magnetic observer.
		Palliser and his surveyors had filled the topographical map of western Canada with almost an infinity of details in addition to the Palliser Triangle; the aesthetic map they had left virtually unchanged.
		Palliser's Triangle is the name given to a roughly triangular region of the continent having as its base the 49th parallel, and two sides projecting northeastward from its western end, northwestward from its eastern end, and meeting in the vicinity of th: modern Alberta/Saskatchewan border.
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	The Naming of Peaks of the Canadian Rockies
		However the vast majority of the mountains were named either by members of the Palliser Expedition, George Dawson, various individuals involved in the building and management of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the early climbers, or Arthur Wheeler and the Interprovincial Boundary Surveyors.
		Known as the British North American Exploring Expedition, it was charged by the government of the day with the task of exploring, studying, and mapping the plains between the North Saskatchewan River and the American border, as well as the southern passes through the Rockies.
		Palliser himself travelled to the headwaters of the Kananaskis River, crossed the Continental Divide, and explored the Kootenay Valley.
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	Agriculture Canada / Survival of a vision (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Palliser recorded, among much else, that the expedition first came in sight of the South Saskatchewan River "at sunset on the 21st September" (1857), while on its way to Fort Carlton, where the expedition spent the winter of 1857-58.
		Palliser was the first explorer to draw public attention to the potential of such a project.
		Palliser was the first explorer to suggest that an engineering investigation should be made in an effort to determine the potential of the location when the "progress" and growth of the population justified such an undertaking.
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		Palliser was accompanied by geologist and naturalist Dr. James Hector (1834—1907), who later became director of the New Zealand geological survey, and botanical collector Eugene Bourgeau (1813—77), whose travels later took him to Asia Minor, Spain and Mexico.
		The expedition was to explore British territory west of the Red River settlement, and south of the North Saskatchewan River to the southern passes of the Rockies, and to investigate routes west from Lake Superior.
		Not surprisingly, given the dangers of his approach, the expedition was not a harmonious one.
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	Palliser Expedition -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The expedition was led by (Click link for more info and facts about John Palliser) John Palliser.
		After three more years of publishing the details of the expedition, Palliser presented his report to the (The British legislative body) British Parliament in 1863.
		A comprehensive (A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)) map of the surveyed areas was published in 1865.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/palliser_expedition.htm (169 words)

	History of Kananaskis Alberta Canada
		Historical accounts of Sinclair's expedition are unconfirmed but it is known that in 1848, he told British explorer John Palliser of the route, details previously passed on to Sinclair in 1841 by a native chief named Mackipictoon.
		Palliser was commissioned by the British government in 1857 to lead an expedition to investigate the resources of the largely unexplored expanses of the Canadian West.
		Palliser's expedition began north and swept through the valley until eventually reaching the 2,363-metre summit of North Kananaskis Pass.
	www.canmorealberta.com /directory/about/history/kananaskis.html (2245 words)

	Calgary & Southern Alberta - John Palliser, Henry Youle Hind and Simon Dawson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		John Palliser, a wealthy Irish landowner, led the British scientific expedition into Rupert's Land from 1857 to 1859.
		Palliser claimed that while the semi-arid area was ill-suited for civilisation, a northerly fertile belt could maintain stock-raising and agriculture.
		The expansionists were further encouraged by the Canadian expedition of Henry Youle Hind and Simon Dawson, 1857-1858, which made a more positive assessment of the region's agricultural potential than did Palliser's.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/calgary/palliser.html (383 words)

	Calgary Board of Education - Schools and Areas
		Captain John Palliser Elementary School is located in the northwest community of Brentwood, serving the communities of Brentwood, Edgemont and The Hamptons.
		Captain John Palliser School honours the name of an Irishman who was commissioned by the Royal Geographical Society to lead an expedition to the land that we know as western Canada.
		Palliser determined that the south western prairies were an extension of the central- American desert and thus, were unsuitable for agriculture.
	www.cbe.ab.ca /schools/view.asp?id=196 (382 words)

	Palliser, John
		Palliser, John, sportsman, explorer (b at Dublin, Ire 29 Jan 1817; d at Comeragh House, Cty Waterford, Ire 18 Aug 1887).
		He spent nearly 3 years (1857-60) exploring what is now western Canada as instigator and leader of the PALLISER EXPEDITION.
		His interest in the southern prairies and mountains of western British North America had been aroused on an 1847-48 tour of the US, when he had spent almost 11 months hunting buffalo, elk and grizzly bear in the Missouri country.
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	More Information on the Palliser Expedition
		Palliser was nominated as a Fellow of the Society in November, 1856.
		Palliser was thoroughly skilled in wilderness living and interested in every branch of science but he was not a scientist.
		In due course, it was decided that Palliser should be accompanied by a botanical collector, a magnetic observer, a geological-naturalist-medical man and an astronomical observer who would also be the secretary of the expedition.
	www.ourheritage.net /hector_pages/Palliser_bkgd_expanded.html (1848 words)

	Background on the Palliser Expedition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Palliser Expedition, (1857-60), was initiated by John Palliser, who submitted to the Royal Geographical Society a plan to travel from the Red River Colony to and through the Rocky Mountains along the unsurveyed American boundary.
		The socety expanded the project into a scientific expedition and applied for a grant of £5000 from the imperial govenment, which was then facing the problem of the future of the Hudson's Bay Company territories.
		The expedition's reports (published in 1859, 1860 and 1863) and its comprehensive map (1865) were for some time the major source of information about the area.
	www.ourheritage.net /hector_pages/Palliser_bkgd.html (349 words)

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		The Palliser's Late Victorian Architecture A Facsimile of George and Charles Palliser's Model Homes (1878), and...
		More John Palliser, one of the first to explore and document the vast areas of what is now western Canada.
		Palliser is in search of a fortune, enough to restore the prosperity of farm and family.In an English manor live the Lovelaces: Hubert and Blanche, brother and sister, both amazingly tall and immensely fat, shy, and conventional.
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	Fifth House Books - Western Canadian Classics Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		His involvement in such events as the Palliser expedition, the smallpox epidemic of the 1870’s, the signing of Treaty No. Six, and the last big buffalo hunt has ensured his place in history long after his death at the age of ninety-seven.
		Palliser and his colleages accumulated a wealth of new scientific and geological knowledge, providing some of the first detailed information about the plants, animals, soil, rocks, and climate of the land they had traversed.
		She explains what the expedition learned during its three years, offering at the same time an initmate understanding of these men and their perspective on the region.
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	James Hector - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir James Hector (March 16, 1834 – August 16, 1907) was a Scottish geologist, naturalist, and surgeon who accompanied the Palliser Expedition.
		He joined University of Edinburgh as a medical student and received his medical degree in 1856.
		In 1858, when Palliser's expedition was exploring a mountain pass near the continental divide of the Canadian Rockies, Hector was kicked and seriously wounded by a packhorse — while Hector recovered, the pass and nearby river have been known since as the Kicking Horse Pass and Kicking Horse River respectively.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Hector (149 words)

	History of Waterton Lakes National Park
		It was at this time that John Palliser approached the Royal Geographical Society of England with a proposal for an expedition.
		Expedition members consisted of Palliser; Dr. James Hector, a medical doctor and geologist; Monsieur Bourgeau, the expedition's botanist; Lieutenant Blakiston, a career army officer, businessman and ornithologist; and John W. Sullivian the expedition's official secretary.
		He forced Palliser into choosing a second in command, feeling he was best suited for the position.
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	The KICKING HORSE RIVER "Great Canadian Rivers"
		Palliser's Party: When British medical doctor, geologist, and natural historian James Hector was appointed to the Palliser surveying expedition of 1858, he added his impressive intellectual credentials to a 5-member team that included a botanist, an astronomer, and a magnetic observer.
		John Palliser, leader of the expedition was himself a well-to-do Irish landowner, experienced buffalo hunter, continental traveler and gentleman adventurer.
		Just as the Hudson's Bay Company's charter was coming up for renewal, Palliser persuaded the British government, under the auspices of the Royal Geological Society, to finance a full-scale surveying expedition to the Canadian west.
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	WDM Prairie Gamble - Family History Album - Story - LeRoy, R.M. of (No. 339)
		The first Europeans known for certain to have crossed this area were members of the Palliser Expedition of 1857 to 1860.
		By mid summer 1857 the Palliser Expedition was at Fort Garry and obtaining the necessities for their trek westward.
		Palliser's portion followed what was later to be the International Boundary west and then travelled north to join the other group of his expedition.
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		Outlines the two separate “scientific” expeditions to inform Great Britain of populations and fauna, of the potential for roads and navigable waterways and of the possibilities for farming and mining.
		Outlines the lasting contributions of the Palliser expedition in Canada, and in particular, how the “Palliser Triangle” was named.
		For the Palliser Triangle to be competitive with the advancing technologies of other countries, continuing research programs are needed.
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	Royal Alberta Museum: Media Centre - October 27, 1998
		The British government, through the Royal Geographic Society, initiated the Palliser Expedition to document scientifically the parts of southern Canada rarely visited by fur traders, to find passes through the Rocky Mountains and to establish British dominion over an area increasingly accessible to Americans.
		The expedition, led by Captain John Palliser, included a physician/geologist, Dr. James Hector, an astronomer, John Sullivan, a surveyor, Lieutenant Thomas Blakiston and a French botanist, Eugene Bourgeau.
		The report resulting from the Palliser Expedition presented a favourable economic picture of the prairies but argued that the dry interior, known as "Palliser's Triangle," including Calgary, was unsuitable for human settlement.
	www.royalalbertamuseum.ca /events/releases/981027b.htm (398 words)

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		The Palliser expedition of 1857 alleged that the land south of the South Saskatchewan River was an arid desert with neglibible agricultural potential.
		On July 11, 1857, the Palliser Expedition, the first major scientific examination of the Canadian west arrived at Fort Garry.
		The expedition explored country on either side of the Saskatchewan River and spent the winter at Fort Carlton.
	www.saskatchewancentennial.com /facts/skfactsresults.asp?ID=42 (87 words)

	A history of the Estevan area by Roy Sanderson
		Palliser The John Palliser expedition sent to explore western Canada is a long and interesting story.
		Palliser came to this area to investigate rumors of a pierced rock and that there were signs of coal in the area.
		The natives started crossing the river to where Palliser was camped and caused some concerns until the guide, Mckay, informed them that they were friendly and that they were only interested in trading horses or buying whisky.
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