Canadian mystery localities
Robin Leech
robinl at NAIT.AB.CA
Wed Jan 24 20:27:47 CST 1996
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Alfred,
Here are some of your answers. For places such as Fish Creek, Sask, you
will have to get more info (collector, etc.), as there are over a half
dozen such names.
1. Gorge Creek, Alberta. Flos E into Sheep Creek. Is a field site for
the Univ. of Alberta, BioSciences Dept. Collector is Lawrence Kenakin.
50 degrees 39'N, 114 degrees 39'W.
2. Laggan (=Lake Louise) Alberta. Name was change in 1914. Collector is
Owen Bryant. 51 degrees 26'N, 116 degrees, 11'W.
3. Tp23, Range 14, W4th Meridian. Contact Dave Larson, Biology Dept,
Memorial Univ, St John's, Nfld.
4. Keremeos, B.C., south of Penticton on the road going west to Vancouver.
49 degrees N, 119 degrees W.
5. Inverness, B.C. (need more, as ther are Inverness Mt, Passage and Peaks)
6. Langley Prairie, B.C. Located where present town of Langley is. 49
degrees N, 122 degrees W.
7. Lonsdale (a district of West Vancouver, B.C.), across the Lion's Gate
Bridge from Vancouver.
8. Mission Flats, new New Westminster, 49 degrees N, 122 degrees W.
9. Park Mountain, B.C., 2 localities, but probably n.w. of Sugar lake
at 50 degrees north, 118 degrees W.
10. Rampart, B.C., e of Cranbrook, 49 degrees N, 115 degrees W.
11. South Fork, B.C. Too many to make a decision.
12. Vaseaux Lake, South of Penticton, North of Osoyoos, in the drainage
of Okanagan Lake. 49 degrees N, 119 degrees W.
13. Waterloo Mine, B.C. Contact the Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa.
14. Riding Mtn Nat Park. Park is so small that your dot for
distribution would cover the whole park.
15. Riding Mtn Nat park. same as #14.
16. Nfld, Avalon Peninsula, Turks Water. Contact Dave Larson, Biology,,
Memorial U, St John's, Nfld.
17. Northern Peninsual, Parsons Road, Nfld. Contact Dave Larson.
18. Port Credit, Ontario?? 43 degrees 33'N, 79 degrees 35'W.
19. Kinburn, Ontario. 45 deg 23'N, 76 deg. 11'W.
20. Mer Bleue Bog, Ontario. 45 deg. 24'N, 75 deg. 30'W.
21. North Gore, Ontario. I have a feeling that this is part of Toronto.
22. One Sided Lake, Ontario. 49 deg. 03'N, 93 deg. 55'W.
23. Parryville, Ontario>??
24. Thwartway Island, St Lawrence Islands N.P. 44 degrees, 18'N,
76 deg. 09'W.
25. Travoire, Ontario.??
26/27. Quebec: Gatineau Park - immediately north of Ottawa. For any
precise locations needed, contact Henri Goulet at:
AG190HYMENOP at NCCOT2.AGR.CA.
28. St Anne de Bellevue, Quebec. Is this not the location of Macdonald
College, once the aggie part of McGill University?
29. Fish Lake, Saskatchewan. There are more than 6, but most are not
far from one another. A central location is 53 deg. 40'N, 106 deg.
10'W. There is one lake a fair distance from the others at
59 deg. 34'N, 108 deg. 22'W.
Hope that this helps a bit. Robin Leech
On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Alfred F. Newton wrote:
> Thanks to help from more than two dozen colleagues, over a third of the
> USA mystery localities that I posted on 12 January have been found.
> Encouraged by this response, I present here a much shorter list of Canadian
> mystery localities. These are needed for map preparation for the same
> staphylinid beetle revision; entomological collection abbreviations are at
> right.
> I have already checked various sources including the Canadian
> Geographic Names Database, as recently made available on the web ("Canada's
> Geographic Names", http://ellesmere.ccm.emr.ca/cgndb/english/HomeEng.html)
> and these localities were not found or were ambiguous. Some are no doubt
> misspellings or excessive abbreviations found on specimen labels, or
> mis-transcribed from the labels, and others may be obsolete names.
> As before, the desired end product is coordinates (lat./long.) to the
> nearest minute, but any information anyone can provide that would let me
> locate these sites on a map would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
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Can: AB: Gorge Creek [2x] 1962 L. Kenakin CNC
Can: AB: Laggan 1925 O. Bryant CAS
Can: AB: Tp. 23 Rge. 14 W 4 Mer. 1973 D. & M. Larson MUNC
Can: BC: Heremeos [?initial letter] 1936 CNC
Can: BC: Inverness 1904 MCZ
Can: BC: Langley Pr. 1932 SMDV
Can: BC: Lonsdale [coastal species] 1927 SMDV
Can: BC: Mission Flats 1950 CNC
Can: BC: Nixon Creek [4x] 1926 F.S. Carr UASM
Can: BC: Park Mountain [2x] 1927 E.A. Rendell CAS
Can: BC: Rampart 1957 SMDV
Can: BC: South Fork 1903 USNM
Can: BC: Vasceaux Lake 1925 CAS
Can: BC: Waterloo Mine 1933 Thrupp CAS
Can: MB: Riding Mountain Nat. Park, B. 1979 D.B. Lyons CNC
& B. Trail
Can: MB: Riding Mountain Nat. Park, 1979 D.B. Lyons CNC
Ma-Ee-Gun Trail
Can: NF: Avalon Pen., Turks Water 1938 USNM
Can: NF: Northern Pen., Parson's Rd. 1982 D.J. Larson MUNC
Can: ON: Credit ROM
Can: ON: Kinburn [2x] 1961 CNC
Can: ON: Lauzon Lake [2x] 1969 L. & C.W. FMNH
O'Brien
Can: ON: Mer Bleue bog 1982 L. LeSage CNC
Can: ON: North Gore 1983 L. Huggert MZLU
Can: ON: One Sided Lake 1960 CNC
Can: ON: Parryville 1966 Boy Scouts ROM
Can: ON: Thwartway Island, St. 1976 CNC
Lawrence Island Nat. Park
Can: ON: Traviore [?] 1907 CNC
Can: PQ: Gatineau Park, Notch Road 1979 CNC
Can: PQ: Gatineau Park, Penquin picnic 1978 D.H. Kavanaugh CAS
area
Can: PQ: St. Annes [sic] 1926 BMNH
Can: SK: Fishlake 1922 W. Criddle CNC
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Alfred F. Newton (newton at fmnh.org)
Field Museum of Natural History - Zoology, Insects
Chicago, IL 60605 USA
tel. 312-922-9410 ext. 263; fax 312-663-5397
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