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Mount McGillivray, a prominent Bow Valley landmark near Exshaw in Alberta’s Canadian Rockies, rises 2,451 metres and was named for Duncan McGillivray, who traveled into this area with David Thompson in 1800 while searching for the Columbia River’s headwaters. Officially adopted in 1957, the name links the mountain to early exploration. Geologically, it is made of sedimentary rock deposited from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny. Its subarctic climate feeds runoff into the Bow River. The mountain also became the site of an unfinished Cold War document-storage project and a fatal 2023 plane crash.
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