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Mount Sam is a 2,871-metre peak in Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park in British Columbia, within the Mitchell Range of the Canadian Rockies and just west of the Continental Divide. It rises prominently above nearby valleys, with runoff from its east slope reaching the Mitchell River through Companion Creek and water from its west slope draining into Lachine Creek. The mountain was named for Private Peter Martin Sam of Athalmer, a Royal Canadian Artillery soldier killed in action on April 21, 1941, at age 20 during the Second World War, and the name was officially adopted in 1966. Its sedimentary rocks were formed in ancient shallow seas and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny.
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