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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Palliser Gathering Historical Evidence CMap, Commerce http://www.collectionscanada. gc.ca/explorers/h24-1850-e.html Palliser spent his days travelling and hunting big game., Attitude toward the Land ?http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/ecotours/saskatchewan/availableTours_e/availableTours_e.htm The bold words of Capt. John Palliser’s report to a British Commons committee on the suitability of the Canadian North West for settlement and agriculture read like an indictment. “The Great Plains: soil poor, herbage scanty, no wood except on Northern exposures.” Palliser’s map and accompanying report were the product of a well-funded expedition from 1857 to 1860, and included input from accompanying specialists in botany, geology and magnetics. While he saw ideal farming territory along today’s Yellowhead route across Saskatchewan between Winnipeg and Edmonton, in the south he saw mostly an inhospitable desert. History has proved him wrong in this respect: Part of Palliser’s “desert ” is made up of some of the best farmland in the province. So good that the Canadian Pacific Railway brought settlement straight through the so-called Palliser’s Triangle and created an agricultural boom., Attitude towards First Nations People http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=5747 Voyaged down the kootney River in and INdian Canoe, Curiosity http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/explorers/h24-1850-e.html His mandate was to explore the plains and mountains close to the 49th parallel, to examine the possibility of building a road between Lake Superior and the Red River and between the Prairies and the Pacific, as well as to observe the natural and human environment., Attitude towards First Nations People http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=5747 Studied the poeple and knowledge of the Red River Settlement for knowledge of the land, Motivation Are you driven by a need to adventure and build your own personal reputations Curiosity, Attitude toward the Land http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/ tutor/calgary/palliser.html Supported by the Royal Geographical Society and the British government, Palliser's expedition collected scientific data, provided information on native peoples, and considered the possibilities for constructing transportation facilities in the area. Palliser claimed that while the semi-arid area was ill-suited for civilisation , a northerly fertile belt could maintain stock-raising and agriculture., Curiosity http://www.biographi.ca /009004-119.01-e.php?&id _nbr=5747&&PHPSESSID=u 2nagj6p9gscf9eflm3vklp6p1 The ruling preoccupation of Palliser, and most of his brothers and friends, seems to have been travel “in search of adventure and heavy game.” He spent 11 months on the prairies hunting buffalo (“a noble sport”), elk, antelope, and grizzly bear, and observing the life of the Indians and fur-traders., Attitude towards First Nations People http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=5747 Spent time getting to know Peigan and Blackfoot people because he was planning to travel through their lands, Attitude toward the Land http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/explorers/h24-1850-e.html "The whole of the country which I have travelled from the Columbia to the westward is auriferous; there was hardly a creek of any importance in which more or less gold cannot be washed. This has rendered the prices for all articles of clothing, food &c. enormous , [...] Articles of clothing and food are the only pay with which you can engage Indians for a journey. Money cannot circulate in the country owing in a great measure to the absence of coin.", Attitude towards First Nations People http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=5747 Brought "Indian presents" with him on his exploration, Commerce http://www.ourheritage.net/index_page_stuff/ following_trails/Palliser/Palliser_timeline.html Explored the Rocky Mountains looking for a possible route for a railway through British territory., Motivation Are you driven by the ‘promise’ of wealth ? Commerce, Attitude towards First Nations People http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=5747 They urged the importance of providing for the future of the Indian inhabitants of the west before the buffalo disappeared and settlers began to flood into the country., Curiosity http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/explorers/h24-1850-e.html In 1857, with no appropriate information on the resources west of the Great Lakes, they sponsored two separate "scientific" expeditions to inform them of populations and fauna, of the potential for roads and navigable waterways and of the possibilities for farming and mining. These explorations bear the names of John Palliser and Henry Youle Hind., Motivation Are you driven by the opportunity to spread the Christian faith to the First Nations people Chrisitanity, Curiosity http://www.abheritage.ca/alberta /fur_trade/bio_john_palliser.html While exploring he would also map all of the regions geographic features – the geology, climate, flora, fauna, resources and most importantly its capacity for successful agriculture., Curiosity http://www.ourheritage.net/index_page_stuff /following_trails/Palliser/Palliser_timeline.html 1858 - Explored the Rocky Mountains looking for a possible route for a railway through British territory.