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Pigeon Mountain is a 2,394-metre summit in Alberta’s Bow River Valley, rising above the Canmore-to-Exshaw section of Kananaskis Country and visible from the Trans-Canada Highway. Its recorded name dates to 1858, when French-born botanist Eugène Bourgeau, traveling with the Palliser expedition, called it Pic de Pigeons after birds seen nearby, though the species remains uncertain. Officially adopted in 1956, the name belongs to a mountain formed from sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later uplifted during the Laramide orogeny. Its subarctic summit drains into the Bow River and is also a popular hiking destination with wide valley views.
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