JAMES HECTOR: EXPLORER Bruce Haig. Calgary, Detselig Enterprises, c1983. 49pp, paper, $7.95. ISBN 0-920490-35-2. Grades 6 and up. Reviewed by Barbara Conquest. Volume 12 Number 5 1984 September This is an accurate and well-researched account of the travels of James Hector, a Scottish doctor who travelled with the Palliser Expedition; among other scientific accomplishments was his discovery of the Continental Divide of the Kicking Horse Pass. Interspersed with quotations from Hector's journal and comments on the journal by the author are notes referring to various maps, some of which are included in the text. Others are Canadian government topographical maps. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs appropriately placed, this retelling of the findings of an expedition crucial to the later development of western Canada could be used to great advantage by classroom teachers of history and/or geography. Barbara Conquest, D. S. MacKenzie J. H. S., Edmonton, AB.