Mount Ishbel

Mount Ishbel
Mount Ishbel Location in Alberta
Highest point
Elevation	2,908 m (9,541 ft) ^[1]
Prominence	431 m (1,414 ft)
Coordinates	51°27′29″N 116°01′23″W / 51.45806°N 116.02306°W / 51.45806; -116.02306Coordinates: 51°27′29″N 116°01′23″W / 51.45806°N 116.02306°W / 51.45806; -116.02306
Geography
Location	Alberta, Canada
Parent range	Sawback Range
Topo map	NTS 82O/05
Climbing
First ascent	1933 J. Packer, D. Day, V. Waters, J. Farish, W. Innes, L DeCouteur, J. Sterlling guided by Lawrence Grassi

Mount Ishbel is a mountain peak in Alberta, Canada. The peak is located in the Sawback Range in Alberta's Rockies,^[2]^[3] north of the Bow Valley Parkway and east of Johnston Canyon.

It was named in 1956 after Ishbel MacDonald, the eldest daughter of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain. It gives the name to the Ishbel Group, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. The peak is the subject of Group of Seven member Lawren Harris's painting Mountain Forms.^[4]

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Ranges

Mountains

Passes

Glaciers

Rivers

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

Peoples

Parks and protected areas

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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Communities

Ecoregions

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