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Photograph by George F. Hammond 



MOUNT ASSINIBOINE, THE AMERICAN IV1ATTERHORN 



Remarkable as one of the most beautiful of the Canadian peaks, Mount Assiniboine, first ascended in 

 1901 by James Outram, towers 11,860 feet into the clouds near the boundary between British Columbia 

 and Alberta, about twenty miles south of Banff. Rising in a great pyramid to the sky, Assiniboine much 

 resembles Switzerland's pride, the Matterhorn, although Mont Blanc is even more its prototype, and the 

 similarity becomes at once apparent to the observer. This giant tooth of the Canadian Rockies was named . 

 for an Indian tribe of that region. 246 



