De Smet Range
De Smet Range and Athabasca River
Highest point
PeakRoche de Smet
Elevation2,539 m (8,330 ft)[1]
ListingMountains of Alberta
Coordinates53°08′03″N 118°06′59″W / 53.13417°N 118.11639°W / 53.13417; -118.11639[2]
Geography
De Smet Range is located in Alberta
De Smet Range
CountryCanada
ProvinceAlberta
Protected areaJasper National Park
Range coordinates53°09′39″N 118°09′09″W / 53.16083°N 118.15250°W / 53.16083; -118.15250[3]
Parent rangeCanadian Rockies
Topo mapNTS 83E1 Snaring River[3]

The De Smet Range is a mountain range of the Canadian Rockies located northwest of Highway 16 and Jasper Lake in Jasper National Park, Canada. The range is named after its highest point Roche de Smet, which in turn was named by Iroquois working in the fur trade industry. The Iroquois named the peak after Pierre-Jean De Smet, a Belgian missionary who had worked with the indigenous peoples in the 1840s in Rupert's Land, the North-Western Territory, the Oregon Country and the United States.[4]

This range includes the following mountains and peaks:[5]

Mountain/PeakElevation (m/ft)
Roche de Smet2,539 8,330
Mount Cumnock2,460 8,070
Mount Bistre2,346 7,697
Mount Greenock2,065 6,775

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Roche Pierre-Jean De Smet". cdnrockiesdatabases.ca. Retrieved 2022-09-18.
  2. ↑ "Roche de Smet". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
  3. 1 2 "De Smet Range". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
  4. ↑ "De Smet Range". Bivouac Mountain Encyclopedia. Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
  5. ↑ "De Smet Range". cdnrockiesdatabases.ca. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
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