Tom Wilson of the Canadian Rockies‪.‬

Although Tom Wilson's name is virtually unknown today, even to Canadians, it is preserved in the name Mount Wilson, east of the Columbia Icefield, and in a bronze plaque, erected on a rock near the great Takakkaw Falls in the Yoho Valley. It records two of his discoveries in these words: "Tom Wilson, Trail Blazer of the Canadian Rockies, Lake Louise 1882, Emerald Lake 1882." This tablet is now at the Wilson grave site in Banff cemetery. Thomas Edmonds Wilson was born 21 August 1859 at Bond Head, Ontario. (1) At the age of eighteen, moved by an early demonstration of his spirit of adventure, he worked his way west through Detroit and Chicago but after three years, he was overtaken by homesickness in Sioux City, and returned home. Not for long though; his restless nature combined with the lure of the West, soon prompted him to hit the trail again. This time he enlisted in the NorthWest Mounted Police (NWMP).