Mount Stephen, British Columbia train entering tunnel

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  Mt. Stephen - train entering Lower Spiral Tunnel - possibly 1930s
• Publisher:  Byron Harmon 'Along the Canadian Pacific Railway' series
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s):  n/a
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Mount Stephen is a mountain located in the Kicking Horse River Valley of Yoho National Park, ½ km east of Field. The mountain was named in 1886 for George Stephen, the first president of the Canadian Pacific Railway.^[1][2]

The mountain is comprised mainly of shales and dolomites from the Cambrian era, some 550 million years ago. The Stephen Formation, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin was first described at the mountain and was named for it.

The first ascent was made in September 1887 when James. J. McArthur and his assistant T. Riley, which was made even more difficult by the surveying equipment they also carried with them. Unfortunately for them, smoke from forest fires limited visibility from the top.^[1][2]