Fairholme Range

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The Fairholme Range is a mountain range east of the Bow River valley in the Canadian Rockies. The range is bounded on the west side by the Trans-Canada Highway as it passes through the towns of Exshaw and Canmore, while the northern section of the range extends into Banff National Park to the southern shores of Lake Minnewanka.<ref name=usgs_pp_1386J/> John Palliser named the range in 1859 after his sister Grace Fairholme, who had married William Fairholme.<ref name=crdb>Template:Cite crdb</ref>

In the spring and summer of 2003, Parks Canada performed a prescribed burn in selected areas of the range in order to reduce fire hazard, manage the pine beetle population and increase sheep habitat. In total, 5300 hectares of land were affected.<ref name=pc_burn_2003/>

List of mountains

Peaks of this range include:

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Mount Girouard Template:Elevation cells Template:Elevation cells Template:Titled coords
Mount Inglismaldie Template:Elevation cells Template:Elevation cells Template:Titled coords
Mount Peechee Template:Elevation cells Template:Elevation cells Template:Titled coords
Mount Charles Stewart Template:Elevation cells Template:Elevation cells Template:Titled coords
Grotto Mountain Template:Elevation cells Template:Elevation cells Template:Titled coords
Mount Fable Template:Elevation cells Template:Elevation cells Template:Titled coords
Mount Lady Macdonald Template:Elevation cells Template:Elevation cells Template:Titled coords
Princess Margaret Mountain Template:Elevation cells Template:Elevation cells Template:Titled coords
Anûkathâ Îpa Template:Elevation cells Template:Elevation cells Template:Titled coords
Association Peak Template:Elevation cells Template:Elevation cells Template:Titled coords

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Grotto Mountain in 2005

Anûkathâ Îpa is the official name as of 2020 of a mountain that previously held a racist and offensive name.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Further reading

References

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