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Meet the three peaks that launched a thousand postcards. The Three Sisters Mountains sit behind the town of Canmore in the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies. The peaks are so nice they’ve been named twice. In 1883, Albert Rogers, a surveyor working on the Canadian Pacific Railway, dubbed them the Three Nuns after a snowfall covered the mountains’ north faces in a veil of white. Three years later, the geologist George Dawson called them the Three Sisters and the name stuck. Today, they are known individually as Big Sister, Middle Sister and Little Sister and are easily spotted from the Bow River Valley section of the Trans-Canada Highway. They form an unmistakable landmark. When you see them you’ll know you’ve found the gateway to all that Canmore and surrounding Kananaskis Country has to offer.
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