Selkirk Mountains

Selkirk Mountains, an outlying range of the Rocky Mountains, in British Columbia, extending southwards from about 52° N. lat. to near the United States frontier. The range contains enormous glaciers, and is the home of bears, big-horn sheep, the Rocky Mountain sheep, &c. One pass-valley (Rogers') has been reserved as a national park. The Canadian Pacific Railway climbs over the mountains at a point 4300 feet above the sea. See W. S. Green, Among the Selkirk Glaciers (1890), who describes what he saw of the range as 'a perfect Alpine paradise.'