Mount Allen

Mount Allen rises on the Continental Divide in the Canadian Rockies, forming the Alberta–British Columbia boundary in the Bow Range and part of the famous Moraine Lake landscape in Banff National Park. Its name reflects both exploration and earlier local language. In 1924, J. Monroe Thorington named the mountain for American cartographer Samuel Evans Stokes Allen, who mapped this part of the Rockies in 1894 and 1895. Allen had earlier called the peak Shappee, the Stoney word for “six,” within the Valley of the Ten Peaks. Built of sedimentary rock and shaped by the Laramide orogeny, it is significant today for both scenery and geography.

British Columbia · Canada