Mount Edith Cavell

Alberta. Mount
Headwaters of Astoria River
52.6672 N 118.0567 W — Map 083D09 — GoogleGeoHackBivouac
Name officially adopted in 1928
Official in Canada
Mount Edith Cavell. A. Y. Jackson, 1927

Mount Edith Cavell. A. Y. Jackson, 1927
Jasper National Park, Canadian National Railways

Named in 1916 for Edith Cavell, a British nurse executed by the Germans during World War I for having helped Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium to the Netherlands, in violation of German military law.

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