St. Julien Mountain

St. Julien Mountain is a 3,090-metre summit in the Canadian Rockies on the British Columbia–Alberta border, standing on the Continental Divide and forming part of Banff National Park’s western boundary. Named for St. Julien, Belgium, it links the Rockies to the 1915 Battle of St. Julien, where Canadian troops fought during the First World War in a pivotal episode marked by Germany’s first mass use of poison gas on the Western Front and by the 1st Canadian Division’s role in Europe. The name, proposed by Arthur Oliver Wheeler in 1919 and adopted in 1920, also belongs to a mountain first climbed in 1930 and shaped by ancient sedimentary geology and a harsh subarctic climate.

Alberta · Canada