Mount Galwey rises in Waterton Lakes National Park in southwestern Alberta, north of Blakiston Creek, within a sharply varied landscape shaped by ancient rock and severe mountain weather. Named in 1934 for Lt. Galwey, an astronomer with the International Boundary Commission, it reflects the region’s history of surveying and border definition in the Canadian Rockies. The mountain is built of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian through the Jurassic in shallow seas, then thrust eastward over younger Cretaceous rock during the Laramide orogeny. In its subarctic climate, cold snowy winters, mild summers, and runoff into tributaries of the Waterton River remain defining features.