Mount Macdonald

Mount Macdonald rises in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia just east of Rogers Pass in Glacier National Park, and its importance is bound to both landscape and railway engineering. Originally named Mount Carroll for a Canadian Pacific Railway engineer working under A. B. Rogers, it was renamed in 1887 to honor Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister. The mountain is pierced by the Canadian Pacific Railway’s Connaught Tunnel and Mount Macdonald Tunnel, the latter the longest railway tunnel in the Western Hemisphere at 14.7 kilometers. In a subarctic climate, its cold runoff drains into tributaries of the Beaver River.

British Columbia · Canada