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Conuma Peak 1910
Alexandra Peak
Argus Mountain
Bate/Alava Sanctuary
Beaufort Range
Big Interior Mtn
Big Interior Mtn 1913
Part 1
Part 2
Bolton Expedition 1896
Cliffe Glacier
Clinton Wood
Comox Glacier
Comox Glacier 1922
Comox Glacier 1925
Comstock Mtn
Conuma Peak
Copper King Mine
Crown Mtn
Elkhorn 1912
Elkhorn 1949
Elkhorn 1968
Eugene Croteau
Golden Bullets
Golden Hinde 1913/14
Golden Hinde 1937
Golden Hinde 1983
Harry Winstone Tragedy
Jack Mitchell
Jim Mitchell Tragedy
John Buttle
Judges Route
Koksilah's Silver Mine
Landslide Lake
Mackenzie Range
Malaspina Peak
Mariner Mtn
Marjories Load
Matchlee Mountain
Mount McQuillan
Mt. Albert Edward
Mt. Albert Edward 1927
Mt. Albert Edward 1938
Mt. Becher
Mt. Benson 1913
Mt. Benson
Mt. Doogie Dowler
Mt. Colonel Foster
Mt. Hayes/Thistle Claim
Mt. Maxwell
Mt. Sicker
Mt. Tzouhalem
Mt. Whymper
Muqin/Brooks Peninsula
Nine Peaks
Queneesh
Ralph Rosseau 1947
Rosseau Chalet
Ralph Rosseau Tragedy
Rambler Peak
Red Pillar
Rex Gibson Tragedy
Sid's Cabin
Steamboat Mtn
Strathcona Park 1980's
The Misthorns
The Unwild Side
Victoria Peak
Waterloo Mountain 1865
Wheaton Hut/Marble Meadows
William DeVoe
Woss Lake
You Creek Mine
Zeballos Peak

Other Stories:
Sierra de los Tuxtlas
Antarctica
Cerro del Tepozteco
Citlaltepetl
Huascaran
Mt. Roraima
Nevada Alpamayo
Nevada del Tolima
Nevado de Toluca
Pico Bolivar
Popocatepetl
Uluru/Ayers Rock
Volcan Purace
Volcan San Jose

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Biographies

The following are brief biographies of some of the people associated with the early exploration of Vancouver Island. Maybe not directly involved with the actual "hands-on" exploration some of the people played an influential role in creating the incentive for others to get out into the field, and in many cases endure extreme hardships. There will also be biographies of some of the climbers who visited the island's mountains and surveyors who mapped the mountains. Some are international mountaineers while others are well-known Canadians who came to Vancouver Island specifically with one or two objectives in mind. There are also a few who were not noted for mountaineering but their international business savvy, however, they did visit and climb on the island and leave their mark. Others are local mountaineers whose achievements over the years have played an important role in exploring "up-close" the mountains that the island has to offer.

A new addition are the biographies of some of the Spaniards who explored the west coast of North America in the late 18th century. Most of them visted Nootka Sound where the Spanish were looking at establishing a base, however, with the signing of the Nootka Convention in 1792 the Spanish left the area and only their names remain on some of the local geographical features.

These biographies hopefully will give a sense of who the mountains on Vancouver Island attract, maybe their reasons for climbing and some background knowledge of those whose names are associated with the history of the mountains. For many it brings alive the history when something more than just their name is known.

Alston, Edward	Gillies, David
Aston, James	Greer, Richard	Neave, Ferris
Bajan, Joe	Gregson, Jack	Paine, Raymond
Barner, Chris	Guilbride, Patrick	Pemberton, Joseph
Berkeley, Cyril	Hankin, Philip	Pearse, Theed
Bitterlich, Adolf	Hart, A.	Perry, Bill
Blinkhorn, Thomas	Holmes, William	Pinder, William
Bolton, William	Horne, Adam	Ricker, Karl
Briggs, Sandy	Hutchinson, Ralph	Robertson, Francis
Brown, John	Idiens, Dick	Robertson, James
Brown, Robert	Jackson, George	Rosseau, Ralph
Campbell, Alan	Johnson, Frank	Rossiter, Len
Capes, Geoffrey	Johnson, Rick	Rydeen, Paul
Cokely, Leroy	Kennedy, Arthur	Schjelderup, Roger
Corry Wood, John	King, Mike	Sivewright, James
Cowlin, John	Kinney, George	Slocomb, Alfred
Crease, Lindley	Laing, John	Smeeton, Miles
Culbert, Dick	Lash, Mallory	Smith, John
DeBeaux, Robert	Latilla, Herbert	Smythe, Gerta
De Cosmos, Amor	Leech, Peter	Stanier, Roger
Douglas, James	Leighton, Arthur	Starr, Paul
Ellison, Myra	MacCarthy, Albert	Stewart, Norman
Ellison, Price	MacDonald, Ranald	Sutherland, Jock
Eppler, Rick	Macdonald, Rob	Tustin, Bob
Facer, Ron	Masters, Ruth	Waddington, Alfred
Feilding, Marjorie	McBride, Richard	Walsh, Mike
Feilding, Rudolph	McCurdy, Arthur	Waters, John
Franklin, Lumely	Moffat, William	Wheeler, Edward
Franklin, Selim	Morod, Andy	Whymper, Frederick
Frind, Herbert	Munday, Don	Williams, Sid
Gale, Henry	Munday, Phyllis	Wilson, L.
Gibson, Rex	Nash, Charley	Winstone, Harry

Spanish Explorers associated with Nootka Sound

Map of Clayoquot Sound from 1791

Vancouver Island section of the ACC Chairpersons

1912 - 1915	Foster, William	1916 - 1922	McCaw, Robert
1923	Westmorland, Horace	1924 - 1927	Dougan, William
1928 - 1933	Wheeler, Arthur	1934 - 1941	Harrison, Claude
1942 - 1945	none	1946 - 1953	Mitchell, Mark
1954 - 1956	Lash, Bill	1957 - 1958	Lax, Noel
1959 - 1960	Goodall, Edward	1961	Lash, Bill
1962	Hyslop, Clifton	1963 - 1964	Sherman, Paddy
1965	Lax, Noel	1966 - 1967	Godfrey, Dudley
1968 - 1969	Lash, Bill	1970 - 1972	Watts, Syd
1973	Neave, Roger	1974	Gibson, John
1975 - 1976	Parker, Gil	1977 - 1978	Latter, Walter
1979 - 1980	Sampson, Mike	1981 - 1983	Hartmann, Karel
1984	Pratt, John	1985 - 1986	Money, Brian
1987 - 1988	Berryman, Don	1989 - 1996	Brown, Ian
1997 - 2000	Ebendinger, Claire	2001 - 2004	Hall, Tom
2005 - 2007	Thomson, Julie	2008 - 2011	Zala, Cedric
2012 - 2013	Rick Hudson	2014 - 2015	Mike Hubbard
2016 -	Catrin Brown

This list is not definitive and will continue to be up-dated periodically.

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