MOUNT CARTIER
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November 23, 1923: "Canada's highest lookout station has been completed and will be ready for use next year. It is situated on Mt. Cartier and is 8623 feet above sea level. It will be used for the detection of forest fires and for meteorological and other observations. The Dominion Forestry Branch has charge of it." (Agassiz Record)
January 11, 1924: "Canada's highest lookout station has been completed and will be ready for use next year. It is situated on Mount Cartier, near Revelstoke, British Columbia, and is 8,623 feet above sea-level. It will be used for the detection of forest fires and meteorological and other observances." (Abbotsford Post)
July 26, 1924: "On the snow-capped peak of Cartier mountain, six miles south of Revelstoke and some 9,000 feet above the Canadian Pacific Railway bridge over the Columbia river, is Canada's highest forestry service lookout. Built last year, after a nine-mile trail had been cut from the base of the mountain to the foot of the last few hundred feet of rock that forms the crowning pinnacle, the quarters were occupied by a forest ranger for the first time in June 1924.
Cartier mountain lookout, which is one of a number that are maintained in the district between Revelstoke and Sicamous for the purpose of detecting forest fires in the rugged and heavily timbered country, commands one of the finest views in the great Selkirk range. From its height the ranger on duty can look north and east over the vast panorama of the Selkirks to the towering heights of the Rockies. To the south it is possible to see half-way don the Arrow Lakes, while the glorious peaks of the Gold Range, crowned by Mount Begbie, stretch across the southwestern horizon. North, the view reaches into the big bend of the Columbia river and west to the Eagle mountains, where another lookout scans the valleys from Eagle peak." (The Winnipeg Tribune)