Mount Talbot is located on the northern side of
Shale Pass
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especiall ...
on the
Alberta
Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...
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British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, ...
border.
It was officially named on 4 November 1925 after Senator
Peter Talbot (1854-1919), an early pioneer of the Lacombe region of central Alberta. A teacher and farmer, he turned to politics and became an elected representative of the
Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories (abbreviated ''NT'' or ''NWT''; french: Territoires du Nord-Ouest, formerly ''North-Western Territory'' and ''North-West Territories'' and namely shortened as ''Northwest Territory'') is a federal territory of Canada. ...
and later the province of Alberta. In 1906, Sir
Wilfrid Laurier
Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier, ( ; ; November 20, 1841 – February 17, 1919) was a Canadian lawyer, statesman, and politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911. The first French Canadian prime minis ...
appointed him to the Senate of Canada.
[The Lacombe and District Chamber of Commerce, 1982]
See also
*
List of peaks on the Alberta–British Columbia border
This is a list of peaks on the Alberta–British Columbia border, being the spine of the Continental Divide from the Canada–United States border to the 120th meridian, which is where the boundary departs the Continental Divide and goes due nort ...
References
;Sources
* Geographic Board of Canada. (1928). ''Place-Names of Alberta''. Ottawa: Department of the Interior.
* Karamitsanis, A. (Ed.). (1991). ''Place names of Alberta: Mountains, mountain parks and foothills (Vol.1).'' Calgary, Alberta: Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism, Friends of Geographical Names of Alberta Society, University of Calgary Press.
* The Lacombe and District Chamber of Commerce. (1982). ''Lacombe, the first century''. Lacombe, Alberta: Author.
Two-thousanders of Alberta
Two-thousanders of British Columbia
Canadian Rockies
Cariboo Land District
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