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AND HERE IS A DESCRIPTION OF THE HIGHPOINTS OF EACH CANADIAN PROVINCE/TERRITORY: The highest mountain in Canada is in the St. Elias Mountains in the YUKON. At 5,959 metres, Mount Logan is second only to Mount McKinley (6,194 metres) in Alaska as the highest elevation in North America................
The highest mountain entirely within BRITISH COLUMBIA is Mount Waddington (4,016 metres) in the Coast Mountains. It was named in 1918 by the Geographic Board of Canada for Alfred Waddington, who from 1858 to 1872 promoted the dream of a transcontinental route to the Pacific via Bute Inlet, the head of which is 60 kilometres south of the mountain...............

ALBERTA'S highest mountain is Mount Columbia (3,747 metres) located on the boundary with British Columbia in the Rocky Mountains. It received its name in 1899 from the Columbia River, itself named in 1792 by Capt. Robert Gray, an American, for his vessel, the Columbia................
The highest point in SASKATCHEWAN is an officially unnamed elevation in the Cypress Hills, which rises to 1,392 metres near the Alberta border. (The Cypress Hills rise even higher, to 1,465 metres, farther west in Alberta.) Early French voyageurs identified the Jackpine as a cyprès, and this was rendered as 'Cypress' on the map of the Palliser report of 1857-60................

The highest crest in MANITOBA is Baldy Mountain, at 832 metres. It is located in Duck Mountain Provincial Park, 60 kilometres northwest of Dauphin................

The highest peak in the NORTHWEST TERRITORIES is officially unnamed, although referred to as 'Mount Nirvana' in the alpine literature. Called that in 1965 by William J. Buckingham, a mountain climber, it rises to 2,773 metres. The mountain is in the Ragged Range, southwest of the South Nahanni River. The range was named in 1960 by Hugh S. Bostock for the characteristic ruggedness of its summits. At an elevation of 2,764 metres, Mount Sir James MacBrien, 30 kilometres to the north of Mount Nirvana, is usually given the honour of being the highest in the Northwest Territories, but it is short by 9 metres................ The highest point in the ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO is Barbeau Peak, named in 1969 for the distinguished anthropologist and folklorist Marius Barbeau (1883-1969)................

The highest spot in ONTARIO, 95 kilometres north of Sudbury, was determined only in 1972 when Ishpatina Ridge, with an elevation of 693 metres, was found to be 28 metres higher than Ogidaki Mountain. The latter, near Sault Ste. Marie, was declared in 1966 to be the highest elevation. Before that, Tip Top Mountain near Lake Superior, at 640 metres, was considered the highest. In the Ojibwa language, Ishpatina means 'high hill'................

The highest summit in QUEBEC, at 1,652 metres, is Mont d'Iberville in the Torngat Mountains. This name was given in 1971 by the Commission de toponymie du Québec for Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (1661-1706), who led many ruthless expeditions in North America, including a destructive rampage in St. John's and the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland in 1696-7. In 1981, the Newfoundland Geographical Names Board ascertained that the peak so named was on the Quebec-Labrador boundary, and decided that a name more suitable to that region's history should be assigned to the peak. The board gave it the name Mount Caubvik in honour of one of the five Inuit who accompanied George Cartwright, a trader on the Labrador coast, to England in 1772. So it is no coincidence that the heights of the highest points in Quebec and Newfoundland are identical: they are the same feature, but with two quite different names................

On the island of NEWFOUNDLAND, the highest elevation, at 814 metres, is an unnamed peak in the Lewis Hills in the Long Range Mountains. The summit is 40 kilometres southwest of Corner Brook, and only 6 kilometres from the Gulf of St. Lawrence................

The highest land in NOVA SCOTIA is White Hill, a treeless peak with an elevation of 532 metres on the North Barren of the Cape Breton Highlands, 17 kilometres west of Ingonish................

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND'S highest elevation is only 142 metres above sea level, and is located in Lot 67, Queens County. The community on the hill is rather oddly named, being composed of two words suggesting a place lower than its surroundings: Glen Valley................

In 1899, W.F. Ganong determined NEW BRUNSWICK'S highest elevation (820 metres) and named it Mount Carleton for Thomas Carleton (1736-1817), the first lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick. In 1969, a warden from a private fishing lodge drove me to the base (465 metres) of the mountain, and told me it would take 2.5 hours to walk to the top. After 1.75 hours, I had reached its summit, and spent another hour viewing the grand vistas.

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