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Tanglefoot; creek, Bull river, B.C.; descriptive; much devil’s club and heavy under- 
brush on its banks. 
Tekarra; mount, Athabaska river, Alta.; named by Hector after Tekarra, an 
Iroquois hunter who accompanied him during his trip up the Athabaska river 
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Temple; mount, Bow river, Alta.; named by Dawson after Sir Richard Temple, 
President, Economic Science and Statistics section, British Association, 1884; 
elected leader of B.A. excursion party to the Rockies in that year. 
Temple; railway station, Bow river, Alta. 
Ten Peaks; mountains, Bow river, Alta. and B.C.; surround the valley formerly 
called Desolation valley; the summits were numbered from east to west. 
Ten Peaks; valley, Bow river, Alta. 
Tent; mountain, Crowsnest river, Alta. and B.C.; descriptive. 
\Tent; pass, Crowsnest river, Alta. and B.C. 
Terrace; mountain, Bow river, Alta.; from the appearance of the strata. (Hector) 
The Mitre; mountain, Bow river, Alta.; from its resemblance to a bishop’s mitre. 
The Monarch; mountain, Kootenay river, B.C.; descriptive. 
The Steeples; mountain, Bull river, B.C.; ‘‘from its peculiar form.” Name now 
obsolete. (Blakiston) 
Thompson; pass, North Saskatchewan river, Alta. and B.C., and mount, Bow 
river, Alta.; after C. S. Thompson, “‘one of the most enthusiastic of the pioneers 
of mountaineering amongst the ranges of both the Selkirk and the Rockies.” 
(Collie) 
Three Sisters; mountains, Bow river, Alta.; three peaks in same ridge; resemble 
each other. 
Tilted; mountain, Bow river, Alta.; descriptive of rocks composing it. 
Tobacco; plains, Kootenay river, B.C.; the Kootenays formerly obtained tobacco 
from the Hudson’s Bay Co. at Kootenay post. 
Todhunter; creek, Fording river, B.C.; after John Todhunter, employee of Canadian 
Pacific Ry. 
Tokumm; creek, Vermilion river, B.C.; Stoney Indian for “red fox.” 
Tombstone; mountain, Elbow river, Alta.; from its resemblance in outline to a 
tombstone. 
Tower of Babel; peak, Bow river, Alta.; from a fancied resemblance to a large 
tower. (Wilcox) 
Tracy; creek, Kootenay river, B.C.; after Frank Tracy, who discovered the Estella 
mine at the head of the creek. 
Trolltinder; peak, Kicking Horse river, B.C.; named by Habel as it resembles 
“somewhat a well known mountain in the Norwegian valley of Romsdalen”’; 
the name signifies ‘‘witch’s peak.” 
Turquoise; lake, Bow river, Alta.; descriptive of colour. (Baker) 
Turret; mountain, Oldman river, Alta.; from its castellated appearance; Cree 
name ‘‘O-mask-we-oo as-sin-wd-ti’’ meaning ‘Queen mountain.’ Named 
Castle mountain by Blakiston; name changed to avoid confusion with Castle 
mountain on Bow river. 
Turtle; mountain, Oldman river, Alta.; translation of Indian name; resembled 
a turtle till the Frank rock-slide in 1903, which ‘‘rather spoiled the likeness.’’ 
Tuzo; mount, Bow river, Alta.; after Miss Henrietta L. Tuzo of Warlingham, 
England, the first lady to ascend Eagle peak. 
Twin; lakes, Blaeberry river, and falls, Yoho river, B.C. and lakes, Bow river, 
Alta.; resemble each other. 5 
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