Person Profile

Wheeler, A.O.

1860–1945

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Biography

He was an Ontario and a Dominion Land Surveyor.

He arrived in Glacier National Park in 1901.

He surveyed and mapped both sides of the CPR between Glacier and Revelstoke BC.

In 1905 he founded the Alpine Club of Canada.

References

Nobbs, Ruby M. (1998)

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