Mount Ferguson, sometimes called Ferguson Mountain, is a mountain in the
Municipality of Temagami,
Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It overlooks Ferguson Bay of
Lake Temagami with an elevation of above sea level, making it one of the highest mountains in the area. Mount Ferguson is situated near the boundary of
geographic townships Cynthia and Aston.
The mountain is named after Peter A. Ferguson, a gold prospector from the town of
Mattawa who staked mining claims on Mount Ferguson in the 1880s. He is also the namesake for Ferguson Bay, Ferguson Island and Ferguson Point.
A
fire lookout tower
A fire lookout tower, fire tower or lookout tower, provides housing and protection for a person known as a "fire lookout" whose duty it is to search for wildfires in the wilderness. It is a small building, usually on the summit of a mountain or ...
set up by the Department of Lands and Forests (now the
Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry) had formerly occupied the summit of Mount Ferguson.
Dismantling of the fire tower took place in around 1975 after being abandoned since 1966.
Like the other highest peaks of this area, Mount Ferguson is underlain by
Nipissing diabase
The Nipissing sills, also called the Nipissing diabase, is a large 2217– to 2210–million year old group of sills in the Superior craton of the Canadian Shield in Ontario, Canada, which intrude the Huronian Supergroup. Nipissing sills intrude ...
.
This forms a 2.2 billion year old
magmatic
province with an east–west extent of almost and a north–south extent of up to .
See also
*
Devil Mountain
References
External links
*{{cite cgndb, id=FBDXT, title=Mount Ferguson, accessdate=November 2, 2016
Landforms of Temagami
Ferguson
Ferguson may refer to:
Places
Canada
* Ferguson Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)
* Ferguson, British Columbia
* Mount Ferguson (Ontario), a mountain in Temagami, Ontario
United States
*Ferguson, a meteorite fall in North Carolina
* Ferguson, Arkansas ...
Igneous intrusions
Igneous petrology of Ontario
Paleoproterozoic magmatism
Mountains of Canada under 1000 metres