Mount Murray

Mount Murray is a 3,026-metre peak in Alberta's Spray Mountains, within Peter Lougheed Provincial Park in Kananaskis Country, and is visible from Highway 742. Named in 1918 for General Sir A. J. Murray, a British officer who served in the Second Boer War and later led the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during the First World War, its name was formally adopted in 1928. The mountain is formed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic in shallow seas, then thrust eastward over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny, reflecting the geologic forces that shaped the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies.

Alberta · Canada