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4 unusual facts about Alpine Club of Canada


Alpine Club of Canada

The club's activism concerning the construction of dams put the ACC at the forefront of conservation groups, which helped it to create the National Parks of Canada in 1923.

Byron Harmon, whose 6500+ photographs of the Canadian Rockies in the early 20th century provide the best glimpse of the area at that time, was official photographer to the club at its founding.

American Alpine Journal

Other journals of record for climbing include the Canadian Alpine Journal published by the Alpine Club of Canada, the Alpine Journal published by the UK Alpine Club, the Himalayan Journal, and Iwa To Yuki, a Japanese magazine.

Ron Dart

Ronald Samuel Dart (born 1950, Toronto), BA (Lethbridge); DCS, MCS (Regent College), MA (UBC), PhD studies at McMaster University, is a university professor, author, and ACC mountaineer.



see also

Arthur Wheeler

Arthur Oliver Wheeler (1860–1945), co-founder of the Alpine Club of Canada

Bill Putnam hut

The hut was built by the Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) in 1965 as a project proposed and largely overseen by noted author and alpinist William Lowell Putnam III, who later became president of the American Alpine Club for several years and a long-term board member.

Mount Thor

Donald Morton and Lyman Spitzer made the first ascent of Mount Thor in 1965 during the Alpine Club of Canada expedition led by Pat Baird.