Editing Mount Rundle (section)

{{Short description|Mountain in Banff National Park, Canada}}
{{Infobox mountain
| name            = Mount Rundle
| native_name     ={{native name|cr|Waskahigan Watchi}}
| photo           = Mount Rundle at Dusk.jpg
| photo_caption   = Mount Rundle as seen from [[Vermilion Lakes]]
| elevation_m     = 2948
| elevation_ref   = <ref name="peakfinder">{{Cite peakfinder|id=1193 |name=Mount Rundle| access-date=11 September 2019}}</ref>
| prominence_m    = 1304
| prominence_ref  = <ref name="bivouac">{{cite bivouac|name=Mount Rundle|id=1554|access-date=29 January 2014}}</ref>
| location        = [[Alberta]], Canada
| map             = Canada Alberta
| label_position  = right
| mapframe        = yes
| mapframe-zoom   = 8
| mapframe-caption = Interactive map of Mount Rundle
| range           = [[Canadian Rockies]] (South Banff Ranges/Rundle Peaks)
| coordinates     = {{coord|51|07|27|N|115|28|13|W|type:mountain_region:CA-AB_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_ref = <ref name="bivouac" />
| topo            = [[National Topographic System|NTS]] {{Canada NTS Map Sheet|82|O|3}}
| first_ascent    = 1888 by J.J. McArthur
| easiest_route   = [[Scrambling|Scramble]]
}}

'''Mount Rundle''' is a [[mountain]] in [[Canada]]'s [[Banff National Park]] overlooking the towns of [[Banff, Alberta|Banff]] and [[Canmore, Alberta]]. The [[Cree]] name was ''Waskahigan Watchi'' or house mountain.<ref group="Notes">{{cite web|url=http://www.gcc.ca/newsarticle.php?id=163|author=Grand Chief Matthew Mukash
  | quote=When Europeans first came to our homeland we remarked that these people did not appear to be enthusiasts of the outdoors. They closed themselves in box-shaped structures and did whatever work (and play) they did inside. We called the Europeans wemstigooshewich or the "shaped wood people", recalling the curiously shaped wooden ships that they arrived in. We called their square-shaped homes "waskahigan", which literally means "the structure you enclose yourself in". When they were not satisfied with one enclosure they made another one around the first, which they called a "stockade". Over time, we learned to appreciate the lifestyle they introduced to us. Today, most, if not all Crees, live in these "waskahigan" style dwellings...It was only some forty or so years ago that our people began moving into these waskahigan.
  | title=At the Conference on Construction Val d'Or|publisher=The Grand Council of the Crees|website=gcc.ca|url-status=dead|date=12 March 2009
  | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170228003018/http://www.gcc.ca/newsarticle.php?id=163|archive-date=28 February 2017}}</ref><ref name="peakfinder" />{{failed verification|reason=Neither the URL in the note or the peakfinder ref give the Cree name of Mount Rundle.|date=July 2021}}
In 1858 [[John Palliser]] renamed<ref name="peakfinder" /> the mountain after [[Robert Terrill Rundle|Reverend Robert Rundle]], a [[Methodism|Methodist]] invited by the [[Hudson's Bay Company]] to do [[missionary]] work in western Canada in the 1840s. He introduced [[Cree syllabics|syllabics]] there<ref group="Notes">[[James Evans (linguist)|James Evans]] the supervisor of the Wesleyan missionaries in Rupert's Land who is credited with devising the Cree syllabics</ref>—a written language developed for the Cree, as part of his missionary work.<ref>{{citation|last=Rundle|first=Robert|title=The Rundle Journals|institution=Glenbow Institute|year=1977}}</ref> He only visited the [[Nakoda (Stoney)|Stoney-Nakoda]] of the area around what is now called Mount Rundle in 1844 and 1847.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/rundle_robert_terrill_12E.html|title=Biography – RUNDLE, ROBERT TERRILL|series=Volume XII (1891–1900)|publisher=Dictionary of Canadian Biography|website=biographi.ca|access-date=11 September 2019|df=mdy}}</ref>

Mt. Rundle could actually be considered a small mountain range as the mountain extends for over {{convert|12|km}}, on the south side of the [[Trans-Canada Highway]] eastward from Banff to Canmore with seven distinct peaks along the way.<ref name="bivouac" /> The third peak southeast of Banff is the highest at {{convert|9675|ft}}.<ref name="bivouac" /><ref name="peakbagger" /> West of the [[Spray Lakes]] road is the [[East End of Rundle]]— locally known as EEOR<ref group="Notes">pronounced Eeyore, like the character in [[A. A. Milne|Milne's]] [[Winnie-the-Pooh]] series</ref>—which rises above Whiteman's Gap just south of Canmore. The Rundle Peaks are part of the South Banff Ranges, along with its siblings—the [[Sundance Range]], [[Sulphur Mountain (Alberta)|Sulphur Mountain]] and the [[Goat Range (Alberta)|Goat Range]].<ref name="peakbagger">{{cite peakbagger|rid=141333|access-date=29 January 2014|title=Rundle Peaks}}</ref>