Howse Pass
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 The Howse Pass |
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| Compass direction | west | east | |
| Pass height | 1539 m | ||
| province | British Columbia | Alberta | |
| Watershed | Blaeberry River → Columbia River | Howse River → Saskatchewan River | |
| Mountains | Park Range - Canadian Rockies | ||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 48 '0 " N , 116 ° 45' 18" W | ||
The Howse Pass is a mountain pass in the Canadian Rockies . It is located at an altitude of 1,539 meters on the border between the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta in Banff National Park , and the continental divide runs over the pass. The pass in the Park Range is flanked in the east by the 3290 m high Howse Peak and in the west by the 3100 m high Mount Conway .
The pass was named by cartographer David Thompson after Joseph Howse , a fur trader from the Hudson's Bay Company who crossed the pass in 1809. Thompson himself had reached the pass two years earlier while exploring the Rocky Mountains on behalf of the North West Company .
Because of its importance as part of a traditional trade and hunting route of the First Nations , here the Ktunaxa in British Columbia and the Piegan in Alberta, the pass was declared a National Historic Site of Canada by the Canadian government on June 19, 1978 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Howse Pass. Peakfinder.com, accessed July 18, 2019 .
- ^ Howse Peaks. Peakfinder.com, accessed July 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Mount Conway. Peakfinder.com, accessed July 18, 2019 .
- ^ Biography - THOMPSON, DAVID - Volume VIII (1851-1860) - Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Retrieved July 22, 2019 .
- ^ Howse Pass National Historic Site of Canada. In: Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .