Mount Odlum

Mount Odlum stands on the Continental Divide along the British Columbia-Alberta border in the Canadian Rockies, where it marks both a provincial boundary and the separation of major watersheds. Named in 1917 for Victor Wentworth Odlum, a brigadier-general in the Canadian Army during the First World War, it also reflects his later public career in Canadian politics from 1924 to 1947. The mountain is formed of sedimentary rock deposited from the Precambrian to the Jurassic in shallow seas. During the Laramide orogeny, these older layers were thrust eastward over younger rock as part of the mountain-building that shaped this section of the Rockies.

Alberta · Canada