Mount McLaren

Mount McLaren is a prominent peak in Alberta's Crowsnest Pass, rising sharply above the Crowsnest River within Castle Wildland Provincial Park. Part of the Flathead Range, it is visible from the Crowsnest Highway and drains into creeks that feed the river. The mountain was named for Peter McLaren, an Ontario senator and timber businessman whose sawmill supplied railroad ties for the Crowsnest Pass Railway in 1897 and 1898; the name was officially adopted in 1962. The area is also associated with a 1946 Royal Canadian Air Force DC-3 crash in the North York Creek valley that killed all seven crew members.

Alberta · Canada