The Forgotten Explorer

Samuel Prescott Fay's 1914 Expedition to the Northern Rockies

by Samuel Fay, edited by Charles Helm & Mike Murtha, foreword by Robert William Sandford

tagged: post-confederation (1867-), expeditions & discoveries

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About the Authors

Samuel Fay

Samuel Prescott Fay was born in Boston on May 27, 1884. Fay was an early member of the American Alpine Club and visited the Rockies to climb in the Lake Louise and Lake O’Hara areas starting in 1906, making numerous trips with outfitter Fred Brewster. Fay died on August 11, 1971, at his home in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Charles Helm

Dr. Charles Helm is a keen outdoorsman and the father of Daniel of Daniel's Dinosaurs. He has published a highly regarded natural history and exploration guide of Tumbler Ridge. He lives in Tumbler Ridge, BC.

Mike Murtha has worked for both Parks Canada and BC Parks and was the planner for Banff National Park until his retirement in 2012.

Robert William Sandford is the EPCOR Chair for Water and Climate Security at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment, and Health. He is the co-author of the UN’s Water in the World We Want report on post-2015 global sustainable development goals relating to water. He is also the author of some 30 books on the history, heritage, and landscape of the Canadian Rockies, including Water, Weather and the Mountain West, Restoring the Flow: Confronting the World's Water Woes, Ethical Water: Learning to Value What Matters Most, Cold Matters: The State and Fate of Canada’s Fresh Water, Saving Lake Winnipeg, Flood Forecast: Climate Risk and Resiliency in Canada, Storm Warning: Water and Climate Security in a Changing World, North America in the Anthropocene, Our Vanishing Glaciers: The Snows of Yesteryear and the Future Climate of the Mountain West, The Weekender Effect: Hyperdevelopment in Mountain Towns – Updated Edition, and The Weekender Effect II: Fallout. He is also a co-author of The Columbia River Treaty: A Primer, The Climate Nexus: Water, Food, Energy and Biodiversity in a Changing World, and The Hard Work of Hope: Climate Change in the Age of Trump. Robert lives in Canmore, Alberta.

Editorial Reviews

The book is a fascinating source that incites study and travel.—PearlAnn Reichwein, BC Studies

Illustrated with plenty of photographs and maps, this book is perfect for outdoor adventurers who hope some day to hike this part of the Rockies, as well as for those who are content to enjoy the adventure vicariously. It’s reassuring to know that much of the territory Fay explored remains as wild as it was in 1941.—Nelle Oosterom, Canada's History

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