Bridgland, Mount
Mountain
83 D
Approximately 32 km west north-west of Jasper, elevation 2930 m.
This mountain was named in 1916 after Morrison Parsons Bridgland (1878-1948). He was born and educated in Toronto and had a background in mathematics and physics. He first came west in 1902 as an assistant to A.O. Wheeler. Bridgland was a fine mountaineer and was a founding member of the Alpine Club of Canada. He was a surveyor for the Dominion Land Survey and performed extensive topographical surveys in the Rocky Mountains.