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Mount Bourgeau is a prominent 2,931-metre peak in Banff National Park’s Massive Range, rising above Bourgeau Lake, a popular hiking destination. Named in 1860 by James Hector for botanist Eugène Bourgeau of the Palliser Expedition, it reflects the era of scientific exploration and surveying in the Canadian Rockies. The mountain is composed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to Jurassic periods in shallow seas, then thrust eastward over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny that shaped the Rockies. In a subarctic climate with severe cold, snowy winters, it remains a well-known part of Banff’s mountain landscape.
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