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Photo: Looking southwest to Mount Lawson (left) and Mount Inflexible from Highway #40

Mount Lawson

  • 2795 m (9,170ft)
  • Naming History
50.7658N -115.190W
Located in the Kananaskis River Valley opposite Grizzly Creek; 2 km southeast of Mount Inflexible

Range: Kananaskis
Province: Alberta
Park: Kananaskis
Headwater: Bow
Major Valley: Kananaskis
Visible from Highway: 40S
Year Named: 1922
Named by: Walter Wilcox and H.G. Bryant
Named for: Lawson, W.E. (Major Lawson was an employee with the Geological Survey of Canada who was killed in France during WW I.)

Photo: Looking south to Mount Lawson from Highway #40

Mount Lawson from Highway #40 (courtesy Dave Roseke)