Mount Selkirk

Mount Selkirk is a 2,930-metre summit in British Columbia's Vermilion River Valley on the eastern edge of Kootenay National Park, within the Mitchell Range of the Canadian Rockies. Visible from Highway 93, it rises near Catlin Peak and takes its name from Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, whose support for immigrant settlement at the Red River Colony made him notable. Geologist George Mercer Dawson applied the name in 1886, and it was officially adopted in 1924. The mountain is formed mainly of Ottertail limestone laid down from the Precambrian into the Cambrian, later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny, and its runoff feeds tributaries of the Vermilion River.

British Columbia · Canada