Mount Loomis is located on the border of
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 ...
and
British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include ...
on the
Continental Divide
A continental divide is a drainage divide on a continent such that the drainage basin on one side of the divide feeds into one ocean or sea, and the basin on the other side either feeds into a different ocean or sea, or else is endorheic, no ...
. It was named in 1918 after
Frederick Oscar Warren Loomis
Major General Sir Frederick Oscar Warren Loomis (February 1, 1870 – February 15, 1937) was a Canadian soldier who fought in the First World War.
Military career
He enlisted as a private in the Canadian Militia in 1886 with the 53rd Sherbrook ...
, a Canadian Army general who served in World War I.
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
The border between Canada and the United States is the longest international border in the wo ...
References
Two-thousanders of Alberta
Two-thousanders of British Columbia
Canadian Rockies
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