The bank of the river being very high, I ascended it, and saw for the first time the sublime and apparently endless chain of the Rocky Mountains.

- Paul Kane

James Hector travelling up the Athabasca in January 1859 called the siting of the Rockies Grandview and noted it on his map.

Modern day explorers travelling up the Yellowhead highway will get the same sense of awe as they approach "Le Montagne de la Grand Traverse" (now Mount Edith Cavell). The mountain that marked the Athabasca Pass through the Rockies was a landmark anticipated by generations of fur traders.

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