Mount Talbot is located on the northern side of
Shale Pass on the
Alberta
Alberta is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three Canadian Prairies, prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, t ...
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British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Situated in the Pacific Northwest between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains, the province has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that ...
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 is a federal Provinces and territories of Canada, territory of Canada. At a land area of approximately and a 2021 census population of 41,070, it is the second-largest and the most populous of Provinces and territorie ...
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 Liberal politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911. The first French Canadians, French ...
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 from the Continental Divide and goes due ...
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
Front Ranges
Cariboo Land District
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