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Mount Etherington  Alberta/British Columbia . Value: 9
Height: 2879 m (9446 ft) Prominence?: 260 m  
Line Parent?: Baril Peak(3 km away, at bearing 5 degrees)
Location: 50:16:18-114:45:36   50.27170-114.76000   11U 659620 5571241     NAD27: 11U 659625 5571022
NTS Map: 082.J.07 (30 km N of Elkford).
Name Status: Official
Ranges: Rocky Mountains / Canadian Rockies / Continental Ranges / Front Ranges / High Rock Range
Regions: Continental Columbia / Banff Kananaskis / Rae

Located S of Baril Peak and E of Henretta Creek.

Name Notes: Named in 1918 after Frederick Etherington who was born in 1878 and died in 1955. He was a Colonel (C.M.G.) in the Canadian Army during World War I and served with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. He was a medical student at Queen's from 1898-1902 and in 1907 gained the post of professor of anatomy at Queens University. During the War he setup and commanded the No. 5 Stationary Hospital in Egypt, of which many of the staff were from Queen's faculty and students. In 1923 Etherington became Dean of Medicine at Queens.

Trip Reports
42 A Traverse of Scrimger, Etherington, Henretta, Baril, Cornwell, Aldridge, and Courcelette Peaks Rick Collier

Topo Maps
Highwood & Cataract Creek - South Kananaskis Country Gem Trek 1:50000 25m 

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