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HUMAN HISTORY - European Discovery
As early as 1792, Peter Fidler, a Hudson's Bay Company
surveyor and trader -- and the first European the
Kootenays had ever seen -- was told of the Crowsnest Pass
as he approached the Rocky Mountains from the east.
Lieutenant Blakiston of the
British-sponsored 1858 Palliser expedition noted not so
optimistically on an east-to-west pass called the "Crow Nest
Pass":"By reports of the natives it is a very bad road and
seldom used". |
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