Mount Sir James MacBrien is a peak in the Fort Smith Region of Canada's Northwest Territories. The second highest peak in the Mackenzie Mountains, it is named after Major-General Sir James Howden MacBrien who was the head of the Canadian Militia in the mid 1920s.
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“But mount to paradise
By the stairway of surprise.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Fight on for Scottland and Saint Andrew
Till you heare my whistle blowe.”
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“The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.”
—Alan Brien (b. 1925)