JANUARY 2002 NEWSLETTER

Peakfinder Updates

New ways of selecting groups of mountains from Peakfinder's mountain database are now available. It is now possible to select all the peaks that are located on either side of a particular valley such as the Bow Valley. One can also select all the mountains in a particular hiking area such as the Tonquin Valley.

For those interested in the names and naming history of the peaks of the Canadian Rockies, a "Peaks by Name Category" is now available and will, for example, list all the mountains who's names have a connection to animals.

By entering a particular 1:50,000 NTS map grid, all the mountains on that map may now be isolated.

Teachers are beginning to use the website and there is now a special section that provides ideas as to how educators can use the peaks of the Canadian Rockies to connect to curriculum content and various projects related to the mountains. More will be developed in this section over the next few months.

Please note that all of the previous newsletters have been archived and are available on the site. If you're interested in other esoteric lists, unusual mountain names, etc. look through the earlier issues. 


January's Unusual Canadian Rockies Name

CANICHE PEAK

This mountain was thought to resemble the head of a poodle. Caniche is the French word for this type of dog.

Enter "Caniche Peak" in the Finding Peaks search box to learn more about this mountain. 

Look who's honoured in the Canadian Rockies

MOUNT RHODES

Sir Cecil Rhodes was the founder of the Rhodes Scholarship Program. He had previously made a large fortune extracting diamonds in Africa.

For information about Mount Xerxes enter the name in the Finding Peaks search box on the main page.
January's Esoteric List

MOUNTAINS NAMED IN HONOUR OF SERVICEMEN WHO WERE AWARDED THE VICTORIA CROSS
Mount Bazalgette, Mount Bishop, Mount Cornwell, Mount de Wind, Mount Harvey, Mount Kerr (Alberta), Mount Kinross, Mount McKean, Mount O'Rourke, Mount Pattison, Mount Scrimger, Mount Strachan, Mount Zengel

For information regarding any of these peaks enter the name in the "Finding Peaks" section on the front page.

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