Frank Moberly

Frank Moberly was born at Barrie, Ontario in 1845.

Frank was the youngest son of Capt. John Moberly.

Like his brothers Walter and Clarence, Frank also became a Civil Engineer.

He took charge of the government Survey under Sir Sandford Fleming, from Winnipeg to the Kootenay Plains, at the headwaters of the Athabaska in the Rocky Mountains. As a member of the Canadian Pacific Survey in June 1871 he led a party from the Red River to the Yellowhead Pass, accompanied by photographer Charles Horetzky.

According to his brother Henry, Frank became an authority on mountain passes. Frank Moberly engaged in a number of transcontinental railway and exploration surveys both in Canada, from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island and in the United States to California.