The history of mountaineering in Canada began with a miscalculation.

The history of mountaineering in Canada began with a miscalculation. onward 1 May 1827 a sight-impaired 28-year-old Scottish botanist named David Douglas climbed to the top of a peak in what is now Jasper National Park and recorded in his journal that its height "does not appear to be les than sixteen thousand or seventeen thousand feet above the horizontal of the sea." He described the peak as "the highest over and above known in the northern continent of America" and named it mountain Brown after his former teacher and counterpart botanist, Robert Brown. Looking across at an adjoining

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