{{Short description|Mountain peak in Alberta/British Columbia, Canada}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Mount Tuzo | other_name = Shagowa | image = Mount Tuzo, ne.jpg | image_caption = Northeast aspect, right | elevation_m = 3246 | elevation_ref = <ref name=crdb>{{cite crdb|id=1435|name=Mount Tuzo|access-date=2019-09-13}}</ref><ref name=otm>{{cite opentopomap|Mount xyz|51.301667|-116.228333|2023-09-14}}</ref> | prominence_m = 210 | prominence_ref = <ref name=bivouac>{{cite bivouac|id=1576|name=Mount Tuzo|access-date=2019-09-13}}</ref> | range = Bow Range<br />Canadian Rockies | parent_peak = | listing = {{unbulleted list | Mountains of Alberta | Mountains of British Columbia}} | country = Canada | region_type = Provinces | region = {{enum|Alberta|British Columbia}} | part_type = Protected&nbsp;areas | part = {{unbulleted list|Banff National Park|Kootenay National Park}} | map = Alberta#British Columbia#Canada | map_caption = Location in Alberta##Location in British Columbia##Location in Canada | label_position = right | coordinates = {{coord|51.3016666|N|116.2283333|W|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_ref = <ref name=cgndb>{{cite cgndb|id=IAOVR|name=Mount Tuzo (Alberta)|access-date=2019-09-13}}</ref> | topo_maker = NTS | topo_map = {{Canada NTS Map Sheet|82|N|8}}<ref name=cgndb/> | first_ascent = 15 September 1906<br/>Henrietta Tuzo, Christian Kaufmann | easiest_route = }}

'''Mount Tuzo''' is a mountain located within the Valley of the Ten Peaks in the Canadian Rockies, along the Continental Divide, which forms the provincial boundary between British Columbia and Alberta in Western Canada.<ref name=crdb/><ref name=bivouac/><ref name=bcgnis/> It also lies on the boundary shared by Banff National Park and Kootenay National Park.

The mountain was named in 1907 after its first ascendant, Henrietta L. Tuzo. Tuzo was a charter member of the Alpine Club of Canada and later became the mother of the geologist John Tuzo Wilson.<ref name=bcgnis>{{cite bcgnis|id=24957|title=Mount Tuzo|access-date=2023-09-14}}</ref><ref name=bivouac/><ref>{{cite book | title = The Guiding Spirit | date=1986| first1 = Andrew. J. | last1 = Kauffman | last2 = Putnam | first2 = William L. | isbn= 9780969162124 |publisher =Footprint Publishing |pages= 123 & 228 | access-date = 26 March 2026 | url = https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Guiding_Spirit/lpKie5RvQCAC }}</ref> On his 1894 map, Samuel Allen had named the peak "Shagowa", which is the Nakoda word for seven as the mountain is seventh in order from south to north of the ten peaks.<ref name=bivouac/> __NOTOC__ ==Geology== Like other mountains in Banff Park, Mount Tuzo is composed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to Jurassic periods.<ref>{{Belyea-Banff-NP}}</ref> Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.<ref name=gadd>{{cite web|url=http://www.bengadd.com/Downloads/Geology%20of%20the%20Rockies%20and%20Columbias%202008.pdf|title=Geology of the Rocky Mountains and Columbias|last=Gadd|first=Ben|year=2008|access-date=2010-01-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402151305/http://www.bengadd.com/Downloads/Geology%20of%20the%20Rockies%20and%20Columbias%202008.pdf|archive-date=2012-04-02|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Climate== Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Tuzo is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers.<ref name=Peel>{{cite journal | author = Peel, M. C. |author2=Finlayson, B. L. |author3=McMahon, T. A. | year = 2007 | title = Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification | journal = Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. | volume = 11 |issue=5 | pages = 1633–1644 |doi=10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2007HESS...11.1633P | issn = 1027-5606| url = https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00298818/file/hessd-4-439-2007.pdf }}</ref> Temperatures can drop below -20&nbsp;°C with wind chill factors below -30&nbsp;°C.

==See also== * List of peaks on the Alberta–British Columbia border * List of mountains in the Canadian Rockies *{{Portal-inline|Mountains|size=tiny}}

==Gallery== <div style="max-width: 490px;"> <gallery mode="slideshow"> File:DSC2528 Morraine Lake Banff National Park, Alberta.jpg|Tuzo (right of center) from Moraine Lake File:Mt. Tuzo, Eiffel Lake.jpg|Northwest aspect from Eiffel Lake </gallery></div>

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