Walter Moberly (engineer)
Walter Moberly ( born August 15, 1832 in Steeple Aston, England; † May 14, 1915 in Vancouver ) was a British- Canadian engineer and explorer.
Walter Moberly was born in Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire; However, his parents settled in 1834 after already Penetanguishene, Ontario, where he attended elementary school. After attending high school in Barrie, he worked in the construction of the railway in Collingwood. He was loggers and timber merchant, for which he earned forests in Essa, Tossorontio and Muskoka. He also worked as part of the development of the American West, mainly in what is now British Columbia and Utah.
The territory of the city of New Westminster in Vancouver was the first work as a surveyor in British Columbia, from 1861 to 1864 he was commissioned by the colonial government of British Columbia engaged in the survey of different road. Explored together with Edgar Dewdney and he built the Dewdney Trail of Hope in the Okanagan Valley, the predecessor of today's Crowsnest Highway. Subsequently, he was involved in the construction of a portion of the Cariboo Road north of Lytton in the Fraser River Canyon.
His most significant discovery succeeded 1865, when he held the post of assistant to the surveyor general of the colony of British Columbia. He managed to find a crossing over the Monashee Mountains between the Shuswap Lake and the valley of the Columbia River, the discovery of the 550 meters high Eagle Pass, which is now used by the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Trans-Canada Highway.
From 1865 to 1871 he was engaged in the exploration and surveying of various mining projects in Utah.
After British Columbia in 1871 joined the Canadian confederation, called the Lieutenant Governor Joseph Trutch Moberly back with a request for the exploration of a route for the railroad, where he was active in the area between Eagle Pass, Revelstoke and Golden. The chief engineer of the railway project, Sanford Fleming, Moberly sent for the season 1872 with his crew to the Yellowhead Pass, which at Moberly resulted to finish his work for the railway project and retire into private life.
The discovery of a transition over the Selkirk Mountains in 1882 by Albert Bowman Rogers - which was followed by a Moberly in 1871 suspected route through the valley of the River Illecillewaet - in named after him, 1330 meters high Rogers Pass sat back the glory Moberlys, but was the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the site of the solemn setting of the threshold last nail in Craigellachie the Eagle Pass acknowledged as crucial discovery.
Moberly Lake in northern British Columbia was by fur trader Henry John Moberly -, the younger brother named Walter (1835, 1931 ).