Mount Ernest Ross

Mount Ernest Ross is a 2,454-metre double-summit mountain in Alberta’s Canadian Rockies, rising in the North Saskatchewan River valley near the south end of Abraham Lake and visible from the David Thompson Highway. It was named for Ernest Ross, who in 1940 became the first person to drive a motorized vehicle from Rocky Mountain House to Saskatchewan Crossing before any road crossed the area, and who later promoted construction of the route that became the highway. After the road’s completion in 1969, the mountain was named in his honor, and the name was officially adopted in 1980. Its sedimentary rock was formed from Precambrian to Jurassic time and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny.

Alberta · Canada