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Mount Lawrence Grassi

Canmore, Alberta, Canada

Also known as Ha Ling Peak, Ehagay Nakoda, Canmore

In 1896 a Chinese cook named Ha Ling bet fifty dollars that he could climb this peak, plant a flag and be back in Canmore inside ten hours.

He was up and back before lunch. Nobody believed him, so he took a party of doubters up and planted a second, bigger flag they could see from town. Fifty dollars was about a year's wages for an Asian worker at the time.

Canmore called it Chinaman's Peak. That became the official name in 1980 and was replaced in 1997, after years of pressure, with his own.

The higher summit behind it is Mount Lawrence Grassi, named for an Italian miner who came to Canada in 1912, worked the Canmore coal seams, and built trails through these mountains for the rest of his life. The massif under both of them was renamed Ehagay Nakoda in 1998, from a Stoney Nakoda story about a man who was turned into a mountain so he would remain after people were gone.

Details

Feature: Terrain
Build: 3D Printed
Material: Ivory White PLA
Colour: Marine Blue
Size: 10-3/4" x 8-3/4"
Completed: November 2025

Shop this Style $199.00 CAD

Detail of the Mount Lawrence Grassi map by Keyway

How this one was made

Flush on this one, which scales the model so the highest ground sits level with the frame. The relief here needed that restraint, since the mountain gains about 700 metres in under four kilometres and at full exaggeration it would have swamped everything else on the board. The trail is the fine work: it switchbacks hard through the upper half, and every one of those turns is placed by hand, which on a line this short is more tracing than most whole boards need.