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Mount Duchesnay is a prominent summit in Yoho National Park in British Columbia’s Canadian Rockies, notable less for absolute height than for its steep rise above the Kicking Horse Valley and its visibility from the Trans-Canada Highway. Its waters drain to tributaries of the Kicking Horse River within the Columbia River system. Named in 1902 by David McNicoll on James Outram’s suggestion, it honors Charles-Edmond Juchereau Duchesnay of the Canadian Pacific Railway, who was killed by rockfall in 1901 near Spuzzum. First climbed in 1905, the name was officially adopted in 1917. The mountain is formed of ancient sedimentary rock later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny.
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