Nature
The Canadian Rockies form Canada’s portion of the Rocky Mountains, extending along the Alberta borderlands and westward mountain systems from the Montana boundary north to the Liard River. Built largely of layered limestone and shale, they are notably jagged because heavy glaciation carved U-shaped valleys, sharp peaks, major rivers, and broad icefields. The range is a major continental divide and source of rivers including the Fraser, Columbia, North Saskatchewan, Bow, and Athabasca. Long a barrier to travel, they became central to the challenge of building the Canadian Pacific Railway. Much of the region is now protected in celebrated national and provincial parks.
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