Mount Sir Douglas

Mount Sir Douglas rises on the Alberta–British Columbia border along the Continental Divide at the northern end of Height of the Rockies Provincial Park, east of Invermere. Among the Canadian Rockies, it ranks as Alberta’s 18th highest summit and 28th most prominent mountain, and as British Columbia’s 28th highest peak. Interprovincial boundary surveyors named it in 1916 after Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. The mountain is built of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic in ancient shallow seas, then thrust eastward over younger layers during the Laramide orogeny. Its subarctic climate brings cold, snowy winters, mild summers, and often severe alpine conditions.

Alberta · Canada