| Feature Type: | Pass (2) - Low opening in a mountain range or hills, offering a route from one side to the other. |
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Not official
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| Relative Location: | On Hwy 16, BC-Alberta boundary, between Tête Jaune Cache and Jasper, Alberta, Cariboo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 52°53'32"N, 118°27'54"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 83D/16 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Yellowhead Pass.....also called Caledonian Valley. The valley of the Miette and Upper Fraser rivers was formerly so called because it was traversed by the Hudson's Bay Company's trail to New Caledonia (present-day central British Columbia)." Source: Place Names of Alberta, Alberta Geographical Names Program and Friends of Geographical Names of Alberta Society, University of Calgary Press, 4 volumes, 1991-1996. |
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"Caledonia (Caledonian) valley was so called because it was traversed by the trail to New Caledonia, the Hudson's Bay Co's designation of the portion of British Columbia between the summit of the Rockies and of the Coast Range approximately." ("Place Names in Vicinity of Yellowhead Pass" by James White, Canadian Alpine Journal, vol VI, 1914-15, pp.143-158) Source: included with note |