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De Smet Range
De Smet Range and Athabasca River
Highest point
PeakRoche de Smet
Elevation2,539 m (8,330 ft)
Geography
CountryCanada
ProvinceAlberta
Parent rangeCanadian Rockies

The De Smet Range is a mountain range of the Canadian Rockies located northwest of Highway 16 and Jasper Lake in Jasper National Park, Canada. The range is named after its highest point Roche de Smet, which in turn was named by Iroquois working in the fur trade industry. The Iroquois named the peak after Pierre-Jean De Smet, a Belgian missionary who had worked with the indigenous native peoples in the 1840s in Western Canada and Northwestern United States.[1]

This range includes the following mountains and peaks:[2]

Mountain/Peak metres feet
Roche de Smet 2,539 8,330
Mount Cumnock 2,460 8,071
Mount Bistre 2,346 7,697
Mount Greenock 2,065 6,775

References

  1. ^ "De Smet Range". Bivouac Mountain Encyclopedia. Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
  2. ^ "De Smet Range". PeakFinder. Retrieved 2009-01-10.