The 1908 Mount Robson expedition was a turning point for Coleman. He was fifty-six years old, and did not organize other exploratory expeditions in the Rockies. The expedition had been strenuous but exhilarating, and had the effect of committing the scientist to the study of glaciers.
A mountain, a glacier and a lake all in the area of the Saskatchewan River Valley, Alberta, were named in Coleman’s honour. (Coleman never set foot on ‘his own mountain.’ With the completion of the motor road through the area in 1939, Coleman had planned, at the age of 87, to climb Mount Coleman that summer. It was not to be, he died February 26, 1939. )
Photograph. John Yates?. Camp Among Last Bushes, 7000 feet. 1908 (From left: Lucius Coleman, Arthur Coleman, and Rev. George Kinney)
Map/ Diagram. A.P. Coleman. Map of Mount Robson holograph, ca1908
Drawing / Illustration. A.P. Coleman. Sketch of Mountains seen in Camps 17, 18, 19 and noon camp in Notebook 47 1908, [page 108]
Watercolour. A.P. Coleman. Athabasca outside of Mountains. Looking up, [243] n.d.
Watercolour. A.P. Coleman. "Near Lake Louise, [408]" n.d.
Watercolour. A.P. Coleman. Foot Hills, Alberta. n.d.
Photograph. Helena Coleman in front of Mount Coleman n.d. Helena Coleman Fonds
