Published in the Crag & Canyon Newspaper
Banff, Alberta
January 27, 1939
Mrs. Wm. Warren Banff Oldtimer and Explorer of Rockies Passes
The remains of Mary Warren, wife of William Warren of Banff, who died Monday, were, following a private home service, interred in the Banff Cemetery on Wednesday morning, with only near relatives and a few friends present. Rev. Canon H.T. Montgomery officiated at both services and pallbearers were N. K. Luxton, J. English, C. Reid, J. Simpson, C.M. Walker, C. McAulay. Surviving her are her husband, and two brothers, H.H. Sharples of Calgary and Fred Sharples of Westbury, Pa.
In the death of Mrs. Warren, Banff loses its greatest friend. That statement is made without qualifications in any way. Mrs. Warren was born Mary Sharples [also found spelled as Sharpless] at West Chester, Pa., her parents Alfred and Elizabeth Sharples being descendants of English ancestors who settled there in 1682. She received both local school and university art education, then made her first visit to these parts in 1888. In 1889 she returned, but this time as Mary Schaffer, wife of Dr. Charles Schaffer of the Academy of Natural Scientists of Philadelphia. From that year she hardly left the Rockies so great was her love for them. Dr. Schaffer, a constant student of the flora and fauna of the Rockies, with his wife assisting him by illustrating his treatises, explored much of the mountain wilds around here. Following his death in 1903, his widow presented all of his scientific treatises and findings to the Academy of Natural Scientists, Philadelphia, then conceived the idea of compiling a book of his findings as a fitting memorial to his research work. With the assistance of Steward Brown of Philadelphia she accomplished this and the book, "Alpine Flora of the Canadian Rockies," was published.
Although her home was then in Philadelphia, she was continually visiting these parts, and finally found an incentive to explore the unknown hinterland. That incentive, a crude Indian map sketched by Samson Beaver, a Stoney of the Kootenai Plains, and presented to her by James Simpson of Banff, showed a lake that Samson had visited as a boy of ten, yet was uncharted. In 1909, Mrs. Schaffer equipped a party for a six month trip in the wilds, with William Warren as chief guide, and the late Sid Unwin, as assistant chief.
Month after month of hardships and discouragements were faced by Mrs. Schaffer and her companion Miss Molly Adams ¬– hardships which failed to daunt the courage of these two ladies of upbringing so different to the western mode – the Indian sketch led them to what is now known as, Maligne Lake near Jasper. Many, many times on that trip the party were forced to hack paths through the bush: many, many times after days of hard work the hacked trails led only into blind valleys, and such happenings were only items of the reverses met and overcome.
The following year Mrs. Schaffer outfitted a party to Jasper, and once more visited Maligne Lake, as she had named it. One feature of that trip was the fact that material for constructing a boat was packed from Jasper to the lake, and the boat built on the lake shore. Another feature is that on arrival at the lake, Mrs. Schaffer discovered that one piece of her compass had been lost during the journey from Jasper. Sid Unwin thereupon rode horseback the whole distance from Maligne Lake to Edmonton and back, to get a new piece. The day after he left the lake, the old lost piece was found.
Using the boat, Mrs. Schaffer made a comprehensive survey of the shore line of the lake and the surrounding mountain peaks. Most of the latter she named, and to her honour those names stand today on Dominion Government Geographical Survey maps.
From 1911 on she occupied her time principally in writing and lecturing. Most of her writings appeared in eastern scientific magazines and her lectures, illustrated by slides made from her own pictures, were given mainly before geographical societies throughout the United States. Through her untiring efforts in those fields she can be, and is, credited with starting the first real flow of Eastern tourist traffic to these parts. In 1915 she married William Warren who now survives her.
She was a charter member of the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies, and was for many years intensely interested in the organization.
Banff, Alberta
January 27, 1939
Mrs. Wm. Warren Banff Oldtimer and Explorer of Rockies Passes
The remains of Mary Warren, wife of William Warren of Banff, who died Monday, were, following a private home service, interred in the Banff Cemetery on Wednesday morning, with only near relatives and a few friends present. Rev. Canon H.T. Montgomery officiated at both services and pallbearers were N. K. Luxton, J. English, C. Reid, J. Simpson, C.M. Walker, C. McAulay. Surviving her are her husband, and two brothers, H.H. Sharples of Calgary and Fred Sharples of Westbury, Pa.
In the death of Mrs. Warren, Banff loses its greatest friend. That statement is made without qualifications in any way. Mrs. Warren was born Mary Sharples [also found spelled as Sharpless] at West Chester, Pa., her parents Alfred and Elizabeth Sharples being descendants of English ancestors who settled there in 1682. She received both local school and university art education, then made her first visit to these parts in 1888. In 1889 she returned, but this time as Mary Schaffer, wife of Dr. Charles Schaffer of the Academy of Natural Scientists of Philadelphia. From that year she hardly left the Rockies so great was her love for them. Dr. Schaffer, a constant student of the flora and fauna of the Rockies, with his wife assisting him by illustrating his treatises, explored much of the mountain wilds around here. Following his death in 1903, his widow presented all of his scientific treatises and findings to the Academy of Natural Scientists, Philadelphia, then conceived the idea of compiling a book of his findings as a fitting memorial to his research work. With the assistance of Steward Brown of Philadelphia she accomplished this and the book, "Alpine Flora of the Canadian Rockies," was published.
Although her home was then in Philadelphia, she was continually visiting these parts, and finally found an incentive to explore the unknown hinterland. That incentive, a crude Indian map sketched by Samson Beaver, a Stoney of the Kootenai Plains, and presented to her by James Simpson of Banff, showed a lake that Samson had visited as a boy of ten, yet was uncharted. In 1909, Mrs. Schaffer equipped a party for a six month trip in the wilds, with William Warren as chief guide, and the late Sid Unwin, as assistant chief.
Month after month of hardships and discouragements were faced by Mrs. Schaffer and her companion Miss Molly Adams ¬– hardships which failed to daunt the courage of these two ladies of upbringing so different to the western mode – the Indian sketch led them to what is now known as, Maligne Lake near Jasper. Many, many times on that trip the party were forced to hack paths through the bush: many, many times after days of hard work the hacked trails led only into blind valleys, and such happenings were only items of the reverses met and overcome.
The following year Mrs. Schaffer outfitted a party to Jasper, and once more visited Maligne Lake, as she had named it. One feature of that trip was the fact that material for constructing a boat was packed from Jasper to the lake, and the boat built on the lake shore. Another feature is that on arrival at the lake, Mrs. Schaffer discovered that one piece of her compass had been lost during the journey from Jasper. Sid Unwin thereupon rode horseback the whole distance from Maligne Lake to Edmonton and back, to get a new piece. The day after he left the lake, the old lost piece was found.
Using the boat, Mrs. Schaffer made a comprehensive survey of the shore line of the lake and the surrounding mountain peaks. Most of the latter she named, and to her honour those names stand today on Dominion Government Geographical Survey maps.
From 1911 on she occupied her time principally in writing and lecturing. Most of her writings appeared in eastern scientific magazines and her lectures, illustrated by slides made from her own pictures, were given mainly before geographical societies throughout the United States. Through her untiring efforts in those fields she can be, and is, credited with starting the first real flow of Eastern tourist traffic to these parts. In 1915 she married William Warren who now survives her.
She was a charter member of the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies, and was for many years intensely interested in the organization.
Published in the Crag & Canyon Newspaper
Banff, Alberta
January 27, 1939
Mrs. Wm. Warren Banff Oldtimer and Explorer of Rockies Passes
The remains of Mary Warren, wife of William Warren of Banff, who died Monday, were, following a private home service, interred in the Banff Cemetery on Wednesday morning, with only near relatives and a few friends present. Rev. Canon H.T. Montgomery officiated at both services and pallbearers were N. K. Luxton, J. English, C. Reid, J. Simpson, C.M. Walker, C. McAulay. Surviving her are her husband, and two brothers, H.H. Sharples of Calgary and Fred Sharples of Westbury, Pa.
In the death of Mrs. Warren, Banff loses its greatest friend. That statement is made without qualifications in any way. Mrs. Warren was born Mary Sharples [also found spelled as Sharpless] at West Chester, Pa., her parents Alfred and Elizabeth Sharples being descendants of English ancestors who settled there in 1682. She received both local school and university art education, then made her first visit to these parts in 1888. In 1889 she returned, but this time as Mary Schaffer, wife of Dr. Charles Schaffer of the Academy of Natural Scientists of Philadelphia. From that year she hardly left the Rockies so great was her love for them. Dr. Schaffer, a constant student of the flora and fauna of the Rockies, with his wife assisting him by illustrating his treatises, explored much of the mountain wilds around here. Following his death in 1903, his widow presented all of his scientific treatises and findings to the Academy of Natural Scientists, Philadelphia, then conceived the idea of compiling a book of his findings as a fitting memorial to his research work. With the assistance of Steward Brown of Philadelphia she accomplished this and the book, "Alpine Flora of the Canadian Rockies," was published.
Although her home was then in Philadelphia, she was continually visiting these parts, and finally found an incentive to explore the unknown hinterland. That incentive, a crude Indian map sketched by Samson Beaver, a Stoney of the Kootenai Plains, and presented to her by James Simpson of Banff, showed a lake that Samson had visited as a boy of ten, yet was uncharted. In 1909, Mrs. Schaffer equipped a party for a six month trip in the wilds, with William Warren as chief guide, and the late Sid Unwin, as assistant chief.
Month after month of hardships and discouragements were faced by Mrs. Schaffer and her companion Miss Molly Adams ¬– hardships which failed to daunt the courage of these two ladies of upbringing so different to the western mode – the Indian sketch led them to what is now known as, Maligne Lake near Jasper. Many, many times on that trip the party were forced to hack paths through the bush: many, many times after days of hard work the hacked trails led only into blind valleys, and such happenings were only items of the reverses met and overcome.
The following year Mrs. Schaffer outfitted a party to Jasper, and once more visited Maligne Lake, as she had named it. One feature of that trip was the fact that material for constructing a boat was packed from Jasper to the lake, and the boat built on the lake shore. Another feature is that on arrival at the lake, Mrs. Schaffer discovered that one piece of her compass had been lost during the journey from Jasper. Sid Unwin thereupon rode horseback the whole distance from Maligne Lake to Edmonton and back, to get a new piece. The day after he left the lake, the old lost piece was found.
Using the boat, Mrs. Schaffer made a comprehensive survey of the shore line of the lake and the surrounding mountain peaks. Most of the latter she named, and to her honour those names stand today on Dominion Government Geographical Survey maps.
From 1911 on she occupied her time principally in writing and lecturing. Most of her writings appeared in eastern scientific magazines and her lectures, illustrated by slides made from her own pictures, were given mainly before geographical societies throughout the United States. Through her untiring efforts in those fields she can be, and is, credited with starting the first real flow of Eastern tourist traffic to these parts. In 1915 she married William Warren who now survives her.
She was a charter member of the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies, and was for many years intensely interested in the organization.
Banff, Alberta
January 27, 1939
Mrs. Wm. Warren Banff Oldtimer and Explorer of Rockies Passes
The remains of Mary Warren, wife of William Warren of Banff, who died Monday, were, following a private home service, interred in the Banff Cemetery on Wednesday morning, with only near relatives and a few friends present. Rev. Canon H.T. Montgomery officiated at both services and pallbearers were N. K. Luxton, J. English, C. Reid, J. Simpson, C.M. Walker, C. McAulay. Surviving her are her husband, and two brothers, H.H. Sharples of Calgary and Fred Sharples of Westbury, Pa.
In the death of Mrs. Warren, Banff loses its greatest friend. That statement is made without qualifications in any way. Mrs. Warren was born Mary Sharples [also found spelled as Sharpless] at West Chester, Pa., her parents Alfred and Elizabeth Sharples being descendants of English ancestors who settled there in 1682. She received both local school and university art education, then made her first visit to these parts in 1888. In 1889 she returned, but this time as Mary Schaffer, wife of Dr. Charles Schaffer of the Academy of Natural Scientists of Philadelphia. From that year she hardly left the Rockies so great was her love for them. Dr. Schaffer, a constant student of the flora and fauna of the Rockies, with his wife assisting him by illustrating his treatises, explored much of the mountain wilds around here. Following his death in 1903, his widow presented all of his scientific treatises and findings to the Academy of Natural Scientists, Philadelphia, then conceived the idea of compiling a book of his findings as a fitting memorial to his research work. With the assistance of Steward Brown of Philadelphia she accomplished this and the book, "Alpine Flora of the Canadian Rockies," was published.
Although her home was then in Philadelphia, she was continually visiting these parts, and finally found an incentive to explore the unknown hinterland. That incentive, a crude Indian map sketched by Samson Beaver, a Stoney of the Kootenai Plains, and presented to her by James Simpson of Banff, showed a lake that Samson had visited as a boy of ten, yet was uncharted. In 1909, Mrs. Schaffer equipped a party for a six month trip in the wilds, with William Warren as chief guide, and the late Sid Unwin, as assistant chief.
Month after month of hardships and discouragements were faced by Mrs. Schaffer and her companion Miss Molly Adams ¬– hardships which failed to daunt the courage of these two ladies of upbringing so different to the western mode – the Indian sketch led them to what is now known as, Maligne Lake near Jasper. Many, many times on that trip the party were forced to hack paths through the bush: many, many times after days of hard work the hacked trails led only into blind valleys, and such happenings were only items of the reverses met and overcome.
The following year Mrs. Schaffer outfitted a party to Jasper, and once more visited Maligne Lake, as she had named it. One feature of that trip was the fact that material for constructing a boat was packed from Jasper to the lake, and the boat built on the lake shore. Another feature is that on arrival at the lake, Mrs. Schaffer discovered that one piece of her compass had been lost during the journey from Jasper. Sid Unwin thereupon rode horseback the whole distance from Maligne Lake to Edmonton and back, to get a new piece. The day after he left the lake, the old lost piece was found.
Using the boat, Mrs. Schaffer made a comprehensive survey of the shore line of the lake and the surrounding mountain peaks. Most of the latter she named, and to her honour those names stand today on Dominion Government Geographical Survey maps.
From 1911 on she occupied her time principally in writing and lecturing. Most of her writings appeared in eastern scientific magazines and her lectures, illustrated by slides made from her own pictures, were given mainly before geographical societies throughout the United States. Through her untiring efforts in those fields she can be, and is, credited with starting the first real flow of Eastern tourist traffic to these parts. In 1915 she married William Warren who now survives her.
She was a charter member of the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies, and was for many years intensely interested in the organization.
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