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The ranch's origins date back to 1881 when a man named Orville Hawkins Smith, a mule skinner, and Lafayette French, a buffalo hunter, began to raise cattle illegally around the Highwood River. They registered the OH brand in 1883, [3] to this day one of the oldest brands in Western Canada. The name OH is a reference to Smith's first two initials.
It is located at the junction of the Bighorn Highway (Highway 40) and Forestry Trunk Road (former Highway 734), approximately 35 kilometers (22 mi) east of Grande Cache.It has an elevation of 1,250 meters (4,100 ft).
Canoe Country Outfitters was formed in 1946 in Ely, Minnesota, to provide canoe trip outfitting services for Quetico Provincial Park and Superior National Forest and what was to become Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW). Bill Rom started the business and then sold it to Bob Olson Sr. (who had already worked there for 25 years) in 1975.
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Mist Mountain is a mountain located alongside Highway 40 in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada. It reaches an elevation of 3,140 m (10,300 ft) and is visible from Highway 40 and the Sheep River. The mountain was named in 1884 by George M. Dawson after he experienced a prolonged period of poor weather while near the western slopes of the range.
The Misty River is a river in Fiordland, New Zealand. It rises to the east of Irene Pass and flows westward into Teardrop Lake and on to Kaikiekie / Bradshaw Sound . [ 1 ]
The Misty Range is a mountain range of the Canadian Rockies located east of the Bighorn Highway within Kananaskis Country, Canada. It is a sub-range of the High Rock Range in the Southern Continental Ranges .
Embarras was founded in 1913 by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTP) when that company built the Alberta Coal Branch line south from Edson on the Edmonton-Prince Rupert mainline. The Coal Branch line was constructed by the Grand Trunk Pacific Branch Lines Company (GTPRBL) from the mainline at Bickerdike south to Coalspur and Lovett.