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Mount Robson Provincial Park is a provincial park in the Canadian Rockies with an area of 2,249 km 2. The park is located entirely within British Columbia, bordering Jasper National Park in Alberta. The B.C. legislature created the park in 1913, the same year as the first ascent of Mount Robson by a party led by Conrad Kain.
Mount Watson is a 2,955-metre (9,695-foot) mountain summit located in Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. The nearest higher peak is The Marshall, 2.0 km (1.2 mi) to the southeast. [1]
In British Columbia, a community can be incorporated as a city if its population exceeds 5,000. [5] Once so incorporated, a city does not lose this status even if its population later declines; the once-larger City of Greenwood, for example, now has a population of just 665 people. British Columbia has 53 cities.
The Canadian Rockies have numerous high peaks and ranges, such as Mount Robson (3,954 metres; 12,972 feet) and Mount Columbia (3,747 m; 12,293 ft). The Canadian Rockies are composed of shale and limestone. Much of the range is protected by national and provincial parks, several of which collectively comprise a World Heritage Site.
That year the UNESCO World Heritage Committee "requested the Canadian authorities to consider adding the adjacent Provincial Parks of Mount Robson, Hamber, Mount Assiniboine and Kananaskis" [2] to the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks site. At a 1990 meeting, "the Committee welcomed the Canadian proposal to include, in the Rocky Mountains Parks ...
Mount Terry Fox is a peak in the Selwyn Range of the Canadian Rockies in British Columbia, Canada.In 1981, the previously unnamed mountain was named in honour of Terry Fox. [2] [5] [6] It is 10.5 kilometres (6.5 mi) north of Valemount, British Columbia and 21 kilometres (13 mi) southwest of Mount Robson, [6] and is within Mount Terry Fox Provincial Park.
Mount Geikie, pronounced like "geeky", is a 3,298-metre (10,820-foot) mountain summit located in Mount Robson Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada.Situated 28 km (17 mi) southwest of Jasper near the Tonquin Valley, Mount Geikie is the highest peak of The Ramparts in the Canadian Rockies, one of the most beautiful mountain meccas in the world.
The Elk Range is a mountain range of the Canadian Rockies, located on the southern edge of Kananaskis on the Alberta-British Columbia border. The range was named for elk found on the mountain slopes and in the nearby Elk River valley. Originally known as the Elk Mountains in 1917, the name was formally changed to the Elk Range in 1951. [4]