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Mount Cline rises in western Alberta in the North Saskatchewan River valley near Saskatchewan Crossing, among the broad valleys and high ridges of the Canadian Rockies. Named in 1898 by mountaineer J. Norman Collie, it honors Michel Klyne, or Michael Cline, the French Canadian postmaster of Jasper House from 1824 to 1835 and reflects the region’s early fur-trade history. The mountain is formed from sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic in shallow seas, then thrust eastward over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny, helping create its present form. Its subarctic climate brings long, snowy winters, mild summers, and severe cold.
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