Mount Parrish
Mount Parrish is a mountain summit located in Alberta, Canada.
Description
Mount Parrish is situated eight kilometers southwest of the town of Coleman in the Crowsnest Pass area and can be seen from Highway 3, the Crowsnest Highway. It is part of the Flathead Range which is a subset of the Canadian Rockies. The peak is set one kilometer east of the Continental Divide, in Castle Wildland Provincial Park. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into tributaries of the nearby Crowsnest River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises above the river in. Chinook Peak is to the northwest of Mt. Parrish and the nearest higher neighbor is Andy Good Peak, to the south.History
Mount Parrish is named after Sherman Parrish, an early settler in the Crowsnest Pass area in 1898. He homesteaded at the foot of this mountain and raised cattle. The mountain's toponym was officially adopted March 15, 1962, by the Geographical Names Board of Canada.On January 19, 1946, a Royal Canadian Air Force DC-3 struck Mount Ptolemy and crashed into the North York Creek valley below Mount Parrish. All seven crewmembers perished in the accident. Some wreckage of the aircraft is still present.