R. G. Harvey’s Carving the Western Path explores the engineering and transportation corridors that connected British Columbia’s remote interior frontiers to maritime tidewater and continental networks. Harvey examines the northern interior waterways and high-mountain passes, providing detailed spatial analysis of the subarctic lake steamer fleets—including vessels like the S.S. Tutshi and S.S. Tarahne—that sustained the remote luxury homestead at Ben-My-Chree on the isolated reaches of Taku Arm. The text documents the complex logistics required to supply deep-shaft quartz gold extraction at the Engineer Mine along Atlin Lake, as well as the pack trails and rail terminals servicing Bennett, Atlin, and Taku.

Atlin (B.C.), Ben-My-Chree (B.C.), Bennett (B.C.), British Columbia Northern Interior, Engineer (B.C.), Gold mines and mining British Columbia Atlin History, History, Inland water transportation British Columbia History, Paddle steamers British Columbia History, Railroad engineering British Columbia History, Stikine Region (B.C.), Taku (B.C.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.