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.
Peaks of this range include:
| Mountain/Peak | metres | feet |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Girouard | 2,995 | 9,827 |
| Mount Inglismaldie | 2,964 | 9,725 |
| Mount Peechee | 2,935 | 9,630 |
| Mount Charles Stewart | 2,809 | 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.
Famous quotes containing the word range:
“The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and danger, than ever the New England colonist went, and led them, though not to clear and colonize the wilderness, yet to range over it as coureurs de bois, or runners of the woods, or, as Hontan prefers to call them, coureurs de risques, runners of risks; to say nothing of their enterprising priesthood.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)