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So named since only a contortionist like Houdini could ascend these peaks.

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After Colonel Aimé Laussedat (1819-1907), the Frenchman who in 1849 first applied photography to surveying.

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After Sir John A. Macdonald (1815-91), a Father of Confederation and the first Prime Minister of Canada. Familiar to Canadians is Macdonald's famous quip that the country would 'rather have John A. drunk than George Brown sober.' Perhaps more worthy of recollection is another comment, which Macdonald passed on his Liberal competitor: 'The great reason why I have always been able to beat Brown is that I have been able to look a little ahead, while he could on no occasion forgo the temptation of a temporary triumph.'

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After John Macoun (1831-1920), botanist and naturalist. After British Columbia joined Canada, he visited the new province in the service of the Geological Survey of Canada.

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After A.F. Mummery of the Alpine Club (Great Britain), killed in 1895 while climbing Mount Nanga Parbat in the Himalayas.

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Named after Major A.B. Rogers (1829-89), engineer in charge of the mountain division of the CPR from 1880 to 1885.

Although Walter Moberly denied Rogers's title to the discovery of Rogers Pass, the credit does seem to be properly his. The facts are as follows. Although Moberly, following his discovery of Eagle Pass between Shuswap Lake and Revelstoke, did in 1866 send his assistant, Perry, up the Illecillewaet River, there is no evidence that Perry continued his explorations beyond the valley of that river. Major Rogers, looking for a pass through the Selkirks in 1881, followed the lead given by Moberly and went up the Illecillewaet to its source in the Illecillewaet Glacier. He then scaled Mount Avalanche and from its heights saw how, by utilizing the valleys of Connaught Creek and Beaver River farther east, the CPR might have a pass. In August 1882, after further exploration travelling from the east, he certified the existence of the pass.

Major Rogers, an American with a degree in engineering from Yale, went by the ironic nickname of 'The Bishop.' He was described thus by J.H.E. Secretan, who knew him well:

He was what we called a 'rough and ready' engineer, or rather pathfinder. A short, sharp, snappy little chap with long Dundreary whiskers. He was a master of picturesque profanity, who continually chewed tobacco and was an artist in expectoration. He wore overalls with pockets behind, and had a plug of tobacco in one pocket, and a seabiscuit in the other, which was his idea of a season's provisions for an engineer. His scientific equipment consisted of a compass and an aneroid slung around his neck. (Canada's Great Highway, pp. 186-7)

For his services the CPR gave Rogers a bonus cheque for $5,000, which he had framed. When Van Horne, the chairman of the CPR, asked Rogers why he hadn't cashed it, Rogers told hirn that he wasn't in the game for the money.

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After Thomas George Shaughnessy, first Baron Shaughnessy (1853-1923). He was an American railwayman recruited in 1882 over a glass of Milwaukee beer as general purchasing agent of the CPR. Shaughnessy was president of the company from 1898 to 1918. Knighted in 1901, he became a peer in 1916. SHAUGHNESSY HEIGHTS in Vancouver is also named after him.

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Also MOUNT SIR DONALD. After Sir Donald Smith, later Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal (1820-1914). For biographical detail see Strathcona.

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Also MOUNT SIR SANDFORD. Named after Sir Sandford Fleming, KCMG (1827-1915). In 1871 Fleming was appointed engineer-in-chief of the CPR, and under his direction the route was surveyed from Fort William westward to the Rockies and through the two alternative passes, the Yellowhead and the Kicking Horse. He was the first to advocate twenty-four-hour-day standard time for railways.

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Formerly Hermit Mountain, but renamed for Sir Charles Tupper (1821-1915), who was responsible for bringing Nova Scotia into Confederation despite the opposition of Joseph Howe. Shortly after the change was made, the English traveller Douglas Sladen wrote:

Sir Charles Tupper is one of Canada's greatest men, but his name is more suitable for a great man than a great mountain, especially since there is a very perfect effect of a hermit and his dog formed by boulders near the top of the mountain. The men in the railway camp have got over this difficulty with the doggerel: That's Sir Charles Tupper Going home to his supper.

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So named to commemorate the entry of Canadian troops into Valenciennes, France, 2 November 1918. Also VALENCIENNES RIVER.

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This and the VAN HORNE GLACIER in Glacier National Park are named after Sir William Cornelius Van Horne (1843-1915), the American railroader who became general manager of the CPR in 1882, vice-president in 1884, president in 1888, and chairman of the board of directors in 1899. Like many other good Americans, he became an ardent Canadian citizen and garnered (among his rewards) a knighthood in 1894. Van Horne was one of those human bulldozers needed in any great construction project. His energy and determination were essential to the building of the CPR.

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Ventego is the Esperanto word for a storm, tempest, or squall.

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Early travellers descending the upper Columbia River would wait a bit, resting and trimming the loads in their canoes, before entering the rapids here.