Mount Allen (Bow Range)

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title: "Mount Allen (Bow Range)" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["three-thousanders-of-alberta", "three-thousanders-of-british-columbia", "bow-range", "great-divide-of-north-america", "mountains-of-banff-national-park", "mountains-of-yoho-national-park"] description: "Mountain the Alberta/British Columbia border in Canada" topic_path: "geography/united-kingdom" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Allen_(Bow_Range)" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Mountain the Alberta/British Columbia border in Canada ::

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name	Mount Allen
other_name	Shappee
photo	Mount Allen at Valley of Ten Peaks.jpg
elevation_m	3310
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prominence_m	260
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range	Bow Range
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country	Canada
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subdivision2_type	Parks
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map	Canada Alberta#Canada British Columbia#Canada
map_caption	Location in Alberta##Location in British Columbia##Location in Canada
label_position	right
mapframe	yes
mapframe-zoom	8
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first_ascent	1904 Gertrude Benham, Christian Kaufmann
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| topo_map = NTS | first_ascent = 1904 Gertrude Benham, Christian Kaufmann | easiest_route =

Mount Allen is a mountain in the Canadian Rockies, on the Continental Divide, which forms the provincial boundary between British Columbia and Alberta in this region. J. Monroe Thorington named this mountain for Samuel Evans Stokes Allen in 1924. Allen was an American cartographer who mapped this area of the Rockies in 1894–1895. Allen had named this mountain "Shappee", the Stoney language word for "six", as part of his naming of the ten mountains in the Valley of the Ten Peaks. The peak forms part of the backdrop to Moraine Lake in Banff National Park. NOTOC

Geology

The mountains in Banff Park are composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.

Climate

Based on the Köppen climate classification, the mountain has a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. Temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C in the winter.

Gallery

File:Larch Valley and Mount Allen.jpg|Allen from Larch Valley File:Moraine Lake Sunrise (7960461442).jpg|Moraine Lake with Mount Allen centered

References

| year = 1946 | first = J. Monroe | last = Thorington | access-date = May 8, 2019}} | url = https://archive.org/details/canadianmountain0000bole | url-access = registration | last1 = Boles | first1 = Glen W.| first2 = Roger W. | last2 = Laurilla | first3 =William L. | last3 = Putnam | location = Vancouver| publisher = Rocky Mountain Books | year= 2006| isbn = 978-1-894765-79-4}} | publisher=Gem Trek Publishing|location=Cochrane, AB|isbn=1-895526-15-9 | url=https://www.gemtrek.com/maps/lake-louise-yoho-map/ | access-date=August 14, 2019}} | author1 = Sanford, Emerson | author2 = Beck, Janice Sanford | page = 125 | publisher = Rocky Mountain Books Ltd | year = 2010 | isbn = 9781897522806 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=DdltliPRsLsC&dq=%22Mount+Allen%22&pg=PA125 | access-date = August 14, 2019 | df = ymd}}

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References

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5. {{Belyea-Banff-NP
6. Gadd, Ben. (2008). "Geology of the Rocky Mountains and Columbias".
7. Peel, M. C.. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci..
8. Prominence based on summit elevation of 3280 m.

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