Three Sisters (Alberta)

The Three Sisters (Eng. " three sisters " ) are three mountain peaks in the Canadian Rockies near Canmore, Alberta, Canada. The individual names of the summit are: Big Sister ( 2936 m, " big sister " ), Middle Sister ( 2769 m, " middle sister " ) and Little Sister ( 2694 m, "little sister" ).

History

It was Albert Rogers, a nephew of Albert Bowman Rogers ( discoverer of Rogers Pass in the Selkirk Mountains ), in 1883 the three peaks named. He said: "It was raging a severe snow storm in the night and when we woke up in the morning and looked out of the tent, I saw that each peak had a snow curtain on the north side, as I said to the guys you going to watch these three nuns. " ( "There had been quite a heavy snow storm in the night, and when to we got up in the morning and Looked out of the tent I noticed each of the three peaks had a heavy veil of snow on the north side and I said to the boys, ' look at the Three nuns .'). for some time the mountain peaks were called the " three Nuns " (Three nuns ) known, but were later some Protestant renamed " the Three Sisters ". the name popped demonstrated for the first time in George Mercer Dawson's map of 1886, probably because he considered him to be reasonable.