ALBERTA REPORTING LOCALITIES



Edmonton

Henry House


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             ACCOUNTS EVALUATED
              Edmonton, Alberta
Data Source              Date               Code   Remarks


*Journal of Daily     December 1872         holding of the  Hudson
  Occurrences           January     1873         Bay Company  Archives;
  kept at Fort Daily                                       entries  through
  Edmonton, Alberta                                   January  investigated;
                                                                       no mention of earth-
                                                                       quake



A.  Period Account:      Primary source for evaluation of intensity or
                         felt report.

B.   Period Account: Insufficient data to evaluate intensity.

C.   Period Account: Item appearing as dispatch, summary or brief des-
cription or duplicate data with more complete
data available in other sources.

D.    Later descriptive account identified with period sources.

E.    Later descriptive account not confirmed in period documentary sources.

*Designates duplicate data not included in compilation.
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             ACCOUNTS EVALUATED


            Henry House, Alberta

    Data Source    Date               Code  Remarks

R.M. Rylatt diary  Entry of           A
                   December 15, 1872


A.    Period Account:  Primary source for evaluation of intensity or
                                       felt report.

B.    Period Account:  Insufficient data to evaluate intensity.

C.    Period Account:  Item appearing as dispatch, summary or brief des-
                                      cription or duplicate data with more complete
                                      data available in other sources.

D.    Later descriptive account identified with period sources.

E.    Later descriptive account not confirmed in period documentary sources.

*Designates duplicate data not included in compilation.


                HENRY   HOUSE
               ALBERTA, CANADA


R.M. Rylatt "Leaves from my  diary"
two years with the Canadian  Pacific
Railroad Survey, Rocky Mountain
Division" Typescript, Provincial
Archives   258 pp.; July 25, 1871-1873.

Sunday, December 15, 1872, p.  147  (WGE):

"Last night while we three sat  smoking  in
the cabin, quite a severe shock  of  earth-
quake was felt. The  oscillation  made  us
quite dizzy and at first  each  man  looked
at the other, thinking a  feeling  of  dizzy-
ness had come over himself, but a low
mumbling sound, not very distinct, nor very
near apparently, and the sight of the several
pairs of new boots hanging  from  the  walls
overhead, and gently swinging  to  and  fro
convinced us of the fact.   The  shock  was

quite long, probably more than  two  minutes
and was from East to  West.  Half  an  hour
another shock was felt, but  not  so  heavy,
and accompanied by little  or  no  rumbling.
I fancy it gave us all a scare..."

(This was written while he was  on  a  survey
from Fort Edmonton and his  locality  at  the
time is given as the Henry House.  The
coordinates for Henry House  are  given  in
text as 53 degrees 19" latitude and 113 degrees 48'-10"
longitude. The location  of  the  Henry  House
according to the map of  J.  Aimesworth  which
has been reprinted by the Surveys  and  Map-'
Branch, Department of Energy, Mines and
Resources, MCR2304-indicates that the
correct latitude or  the  correct  location of
Henry House is 118 degrees 6'.  In the  typescript,
the longitude in degrees is 113 degrees and  113  is
written in pencil there  but  that  appears to
be an erroneous entry by  some  later  proof-
reader or someone who put that in there
because the correct  locality  that  Rylatt
probably wanted to write down there was
probably 117 degrees 48' 10".  Henry House is
located about 10 miles due  north  of  Jasper
The Henry House is an old  trading  post  of
the Great Northwestern Trading Company
located in the vicinity  of  Athabasca  and
Leatherhead Passes, WGE).