Mount Rundle
Mountain in Banff National Park, Canada
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Mount Rundle is a mountain in Canada's Banff National Park overlooking the towns of Banff and Canmore, Alberta. The Cree name was Waskahigan Watchi or house mountain.
In 1858 John Palliser renamed the mountain after Reverend Robert Rundle, a Methodist invited by the Hudson's Bay Company to do missionary work in western Canada in the 1840s. He introduced syllabics there—a written language developed for the Cree, as part of his missionary work. He only visited the Stoney-Nakoda of the area around what is now called Mount Rundle in 1844 and 1847.
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Rundle Group
Geological formation in Canada
0.3 mi away
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Valley in Alberta, Canada
1.5 mi away
Cascade River (Alberta)
River in Alberta, Canada
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