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Rogers and discoverer
It was Albert Rogers, a nephew of Major Rogers, the discoverer of Rogers Pass in the Selkirk Mountains, who named the three peaks in 1883.

Rogers and Pass
An eastbound CPR freight at Stoney Creek Bridge in Rogers Pass ( British Columbia ) | Rogers Pass as seen in a 1988 photo by David R. Spencer.
Then it continues east through Salmon Arm, Revelstoke, Rogers Pass, Golden, and Kicking Horse Pass to Banff, Alberta as a mostly high mobility highway.
There are several Canadian National Parks in the Pacific Northwest, including Pacific Rim National Park on the west coast of Vancouver Island, Mount Revelstoke National Park and Glacier National Park in the Selkirk Range alongside Rogers Pass, Kootenay National Park and Yoho National Park on the British Columbia flank of the Rockies, Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve in the Queen Charlotte Islands, and the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve in the Strait of Georgia.
B. Rogers ( 1829 – 1889 ), railway surveyor who discovered Rogers Pass in British Columbia, Canada.
During the winter, the average low is, and the average high is .. West Yellowstone also holds the record low for the lower 48 of any community at, although Rogers Pass, Montana is colder, at, however, the December record low of is the monthly record low for the lower 48.
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The White Pass and Yukon Route railway acquired the world's first container ship, the Clifford J. Rogers, built in 1955, and introduced containers to its railway in 1956.
* March 5-65 are killed in an avalanche in Rogers Pass
The CPR had constructed smaller hotels in 1886 to accommodate travellers, including: Glacier House in Glacier in the Rogers Pass, Mount Stephen Hotel in Field, B. C.
They were named after the Selkirk range of mountains that they crossed, the ( railway ) summit of which was located just inside the western portal of the Connaught Tunnel beneath Rogers Pass.
The Laggan Subdivision covered the Eastern portion of their assigned territory and included the Field Hill and the famous Spiral Tunnels while the Western portion of their primary, assigned territory consisted of the Mountain Subdivision which covered the remaining and included the famous Rogers Pass, the Connaught Tunnel and Stoney Creek Bridge.
A Canadian Pacific Railway freight eastbound over the Stoney Creek Bridge in Rogers Pass ( British Columbia ) | Rogers Pass.
In the Kootenays, Highway 1 originally went around the Rogers Pass area in its section from Revelstoke to Golden.
In 1962, the section of Highway between Revelstoke and Golden was re-routed through Rogers Pass.

Rogers and when
Rogers stated that " one may see that Solitude and Retirement from the World is not such an unsufferable State of Life as most Men imagine, especially when People are fairly call'd or thrown into it unavoidably, as this Man was ".
Rogers got in trouble when on June 29, 2005, he purposely grabbed the camera of a cameraman, resulting in one camera falling to the ground.
Rogers continued teaching at University of Wisconsin until 1963, when he became a resident at the new Center for Studies of the Person in La Jolla.
#“ The structure and organization of self appears to become more rigid under threats and to relax its boundaries when completely free from threat ” ( Rogers, 1951 ).
During the Fear Itself storyline, Steve Rogers is present when the threat of the Serpent is known.
Although the super-soldier serum is an important part of his strength, Rogers has shown himself still sufficiently capable against stronger opponents, even when the serum has been deactivated reverting him to his pre-Captain America physique.
Models have been an essential tool in science fiction television since the beginning, when Buck Rogers took flight in spark-scattering spaceships wheeling across a matte backdrop sky.
* August 15 – Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post are killed when Post's plane crashes shortly after takeoff near Barrow, Alaska.
The " pirates ' republic " came to an end in 1718, when Woodes Rogers, the first Royal Governor of the Bahamas, reached Nassau with a small fleet of warships.
Rogers dissolved the colony's assembly when it would not approve taxes to repair Nassau's defenses.
Will Rogers presented the Academy Award for Best Director, and when he opened the envelope he simply announced, " Come up and get it, Frank!
Rogers was to remain close to her grandfather ( much later, when she was a star in 1939, she bought him a home at 5115 Greenbush Avenue in Sherman Oaks, California so that he could be close to her while she was filming at the studios ).
Rogers ' entertainment career was born one night when the traveling vaudeville act of Eddie Foy came to Fort Worth and needed a quick stand-in.
At 17, Rogers married Jack Culpepper, a singer / dancer / comedian / recording artist of the day who worked under the name Jack Pepper ( according to Ginger's autobiography, she knew Culpepper when she was a child, as her cousin's boyfriend ).
John Mueller summed up Rogers's abilities as follows: " Rogers was outstanding among Astaire's partners not because she was superior to others as a dancer but because, as a skilled, intuitive actress, she was cagey enough to realize that acting did not stop when dancing began ... the reason so many women have fantasized about dancing with Fred Astaire is that Ginger Rogers conveyed the impression that dancing with him is the most thrilling experience imaginable ".
In later life, Rogers remained on good terms with Astaire: she presented him with a special Academy Award in 1950, and they were co-presenters of individual Academy Awards in 1967, during which they elicited a standing ovation when they came on stage in an impromptu dance.
This event, which was shown on television, was somewhat marred when Astaire's widow, Robyn Smith, who permitted clips of Astaire dancing with Rogers to be shown for free at the function itself, was unable to come to terms with CBS Television for broadcast rights to the clips ( all previous rights holders having donated broadcast rights gratis ).
Sylvia, Hollywood's fitness guru and radio personality, had claimed that Rogers was on Sylvia's radio show when, in fact, she was not.
In 1985, Rogers fulfilled a long-standing wish to direct, when she directed the musical Babes in Arms off-Broadway in Tarrytown, New York, when she was 74 years old.
Rogers remained at the 4-Rs ( Rogers's Rogue River Ranch ) until 1990, when she sold the property and moved to nearby Medford, Oregon.
Mueller sums up Rogers's abilities as follows: " Rogers was outstanding among Astaire's partners not because she was superior to others as a dancer, but because, as a skilled, intuitive actress, she was cagey enough to realize that acting did not stop when dancing began ... the reason so many women have fantasized about dancing with Fred Astaire is that Ginger Rogers conveyed the impression that dancing with him is the most thrilling experience imaginable.
* In the Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers feature film Swing Time ( 1936 ), Lucky ( Astaire ), when asked by Mr. Gordon, why he wishes to learn to dance, answers: " To flirt with terpsichory ".

Rogers and surveyed
The area was first surveyed by Revolutionary War veteran and Virginian Edmund P. Rogers in 1800.
In September, 1872, Asenath M. Rogers, Roberts ’ wife, surveyed and platted eleven acres and called it Gates.
In 1875, Aseneth Rogers surveyed and platted an addition to the village of Gates.
His father had surveyed land in Kentucky with George Rogers Clark, and settled on the land just after the end of the Revolutionary War.
It was named after Major Rogers who first surveyed the pass.
This left Canada with a single transcontinental route close to the U. S. border, since CP chose to use Rogers and Kicking Horse passes rather than the surveyed route over the Yellowhead.
Rogers was the grandson of a noted Provincial Land Surveyor, Richard Birdsall who had surveyed most of the lands in the Peterborough area.

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