Mount Belanger

{{Short description|Mountain in Alberta, Canada}}

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Mount Belanger

| photo = West_face_of_Mount_Belanger.jpg

| photo_caption = The west face of Mount Belanger, August 2011

| elevation_m = 3120

| elevation_ref = {{cite peakfinder|id=107|name=Mount Belanger|access-date=2021-01-05}}

| prominence_m = 589

| prominence_ref = {{cite bivouac|id=475|name=Mount Belanger|accessdate=2017-11-26}}{{cite peakbagger|id=4435|name=Mount Belanger|accessdate=2012-11-03}}

| listing = Mountains of Alberta

| country = Canada | region_type = Province | region = Alberta

| part_type = Protected area | part = Jasper National Park

| range = Canadian Rockies

| parent_peak = Mount Fryatt 3,361 m

| map = Alberta#Canada

| map_caption = Location in Alberta##Location in Canada

| map_size = 260

| label_position = right

| coordinates = {{coord|52|30|41|N|117|55|22|W|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| coordinates_ref = {{cite cgndb|id=IAECF|name=Mount Belanger|accessdate=2021-01-05}}

| topo = NTS {{Canada NTS Map Sheet|83|C|12}}

| first_ascent = July 14, 1930 by W.R. Hainsworth, J.F. Lehmann, M.M. Strumia

| easiest_route = North face II

}}

Mount Belanger is a {{convert|3109|m|ft|0|adj=on}} mountain, making it Alberta's 130th highest peak. It was named in 1814 in memory of André Bélanger, a French Canadian, member of the Astoria expedition, who with Gabriel Franchère and others where coming back by land to Montréal. After having set up Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River in present day Oregon. André Bélanger and Olivier Roy-Lapensée drowned in the Athabasca River in 1814 and Thus Gabriel Franchère named that mountain after him and a rapid and a piece of land in memory of Lapensée.{{cite book|title=Place-names of Alberta|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015070267029;view=1up;seq=22|year=1928|publisher=Geographic Board of Canada|location=Ottawa|page=18|via=babel.hathitrust.org|access-date=2021-01-05}} It lies within peaks that are between the Athabasca River and Whirlpool Rivers in Jasper National Park.