Fairholme Range

Fairholme Range

Grotto Mountain in 2005
Highest point
Peak Mount Girouard
Elevation 2,995 m (9,826 ft)
Coordinates 51°14′15″N 115°24′05″W / 51.23750°N 115.40139°W
Geography

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Country Canada
Province Alberta
Range coordinates 51°10′N 115°18′W / 51.17°N 115.3°WCoordinates: 51°10′N 115°18′W / 51.17°N 115.3°W
Parent range Canadian Rockies

The Fairholme Range is a mountain range east of the Bow River valley in the Canadian Rockies. The range is bounded by the Trans-Canada Highway on the west side while the northern section of the range extends into Banff National Park to the southern shores of Lake Minnewanka. John Palliser named the range in 1859 after his sister Grace Fairholme, who had married William Fairholme.[1]

Peaks of this range include:

Mountain/Peak metresfeet
Mount Girouard 2,995 9,827
Mount Inglismaldie 2,964 9,725
Mount Peechee 2,935 9,630
Mount Charles Stewart2,809 9,216
Grotto Mountain 2,706 8,878
Mount Lady Macdonald 2,606 8,550
Princess Margaret Mountain 2,515 8,252
Squaw's Tit 2,514 8,250

In the spring and summer of 2003, Parks Canada performed a prescribed burn in selected areas of the range in order to reduce fire hazard, manage pine beetle population and increase sheep habitat. In total, 5300 hectares of land were affected.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Fairholme Range". PeakFinder. Retrieved 2004-06-15.
  2. ↑ "2003 Prescribed burn in the Fairholme Range". Parks Canada. Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2005-10-16.