Mount Girouard

Mount Girouard
Mount Inglismaldie (left) and Mount Girouard (right)
Highest point
Elevation	2,995 m (9,826 ft) ^[1]
Prominence	1,455 m (4,774 ft) ^[2]
Coordinates	51°14′15″N 115°24′05″W / 51.23750°N 115.40139°W / 51.23750; -115.40139Coordinates: 51°14′15″N 115°24′05″W / 51.23750°N 115.40139°W / 51.23750; -115.40139 ^[1]
Geography
Mount Girouard Location in Alberta
Location	Alberta, Canada
Parent range	Fairholme Range
Topo map	NTS 82O/03
Climbing
First ascent	1938 by E.E. Bishop and D.R. Crosby^[1]^[2]
Easiest route	rock climb

Mount Girouard is the highest peak of the Fairholme Range in Banff National Park, Canada. Mt. Girouard is located in the Bow River valley south of Lake Minnewanka.

The mountain was named in 1904 after Sir Édouard Girouard, a railway builder in Africa during the rule of the British Empire.^[1]^[2]

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see List of rivers of the Canadian Rockies and Category:Rivers of the Canadian Rockies

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World Heritage Sites	Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

National	Parks Banff Jasper Kootenay Yoho Waterton Lakes Historic Sites Jasper House Jasper Park Information Centre Yellowhead Pass Athabasca Pass Howse Pass Kootenae House Kicking Horse Pass Skoki Ski Lodge Twin Falls Tea House Abbot Pass Refuge Cabin Cave and Basin Banff Park Museum Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station First Oil Well in Western Canada

Provincial (AB)	Parks Bow Valley Bragg Creek Elbow-Sheep Ghost River Kananaskis Peter Lougheed Sheep River Siffleur Spray Valley White Goat Willmore Historic Sites Frank Slide

Provincial (BC)	Akamina-Kishinena Close To The Edge Dune Za Keyih (Frog-Gataga) Elk Lakes Graham-Laurier Hamber Height of the Rockies Hole-in-the-Wall Kakwa Kikomun Creek Kwadacha Mount Assiniboine Mount Fernie Mount Robson Muncho Lake Northern Rocky Mountains Pine Le Moray Stone Mountain Muskwa-Kechika

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