Princess Margaret Mountain

Princess Margaret Mountain is a mountain located in the Bow River valley of Banff National Park, 2.5 km (1.6 mi) west of Mount Charles Stewart.

The mountain was named in 1958 after Princess Margaret (sister of Queen Elizabeth II), who had visited Banff and spent a night in a location near the mountain.

Famous quotes containing the words princess, margaret and/or mountain:

    We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Sometimes we can’t avoid giving pain, even to friends.
    —Kenneth Langtry. Herbert L. Strock. Margaret (Phyllis Coates)

    The mountain pushed us off her knees.
    And now her lap is full of trees.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)