Mount Barnard (Canada)

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Mount Barnard
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Mount Barnard
Location in Alberta
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Mount Barnard
Location in British Columbia
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Mount Barnard
Location in Canada
Highest point
Elevation 3,339 m (10,955 ft) [1] [2]
Prominence 943 m (3,094 ft) [3]
Parent peak Mount Forbes (3612 m) [4]
Listing
Coordinates 51°42′33″N116°55′22″W / 51.70916°N 116.92277°W / 51.70916; -116.92277 [5]
Geography
Country Canada
Provinces Alberta and British Columbia
Protected area Banff National Park
Parent range Park Ranges
Topo map NTS 82N10 Blaeberry River [5]
Climbing
First ascent July 14, 1922 by Howard Palmer, J. Monroe Thorington, Edward Feuz Jr. [6]

Mount Barnard is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia, NW of the head of Waitabit Creek and North of Golden. [7] It is the 30th highest peak in Alberta and the 42nd highest peak in British Columbia. It was named in 1917 by boundary surveyors after Sir Francis Stillman Barnard, a Lieutenant Governor of BC during the 1910s. [7] [1] [8] It should not be confused with the higher Californian peak of the same name.

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References

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  5. 1 2 "Mount Barnard". Geographical Names Data Base . Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 2021-09-02.
  6. Thorington, J. Monroe; Sandford, Robert William (2012) [1925]. "Chapter 3: The Freshfield Group". The Glittering Mountains of Canada: A Record of Exploration and Pioneer Ascents in the Canadian Rockies, 1914-1924 (Kindle ed.). Calgary: Rocky Mountain Books. ISBN   9781927330067.
  7. 1 2 "Mount Barnard". BC Geographical Names . Retrieved 2021-09-02.
  8. Boles, Glen W.; Laurilla, Roger W.; Putnam, William L. (2006). Canadian Mountain Place Names . Vancouver: Rocky Mountain Books. p.  37. ISBN   978-1-894765-79-4.