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St. Eloi Mountain stands on the Alberta-British Columbia border along the Continental Divide in the Canadian Rockies. Named in 1917 for St. Eloi near Ypres, it connects this landscape with a place remembered from the First World War. The mountain is formed of sedimentary rock laid down in ancient shallow seas from the Precambrian through the Jurassic. During the Laramide orogeny, these older layers were thrust eastward over younger Cretaceous rock, helping shape much of the Rocky Mountain front. It lies in a subarctic climate zone marked by cold, snowy winters, mild summers, and winter temperatures that can plunge below −20 °C with wind chills below −30 °C.
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