Mount Michener

Mount Michener is a 2,545-metre peak in Alberta on the eastern edge of the Canadian Rockies, forming the northern part of the Ram Range above Abraham Lake and prominently visible from the David Thompson Highway. Renamed in 1982 for former Governor General Daniel Roland Michener, it was previously called Eye Opener Mountain and Phoebe’s Teat, a name associated with a woman from Rocky Mountain House who visited Nordegg miners in the 1930s. The mountain was created by tectonic forces from the Late Cretaceous into the early Paleogene, which thrust rock upward along a fault line and left contorted beds near the summit.

Alberta · Canada