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2021 - Vancouver - The Lions

            Explore 26 January 2021

The Lions are well known peaks in Vancouver’s North Shore Mountains. 

The mountains are a pair of twin peaks made of igneous granitic type rock, primarily quartz diorite with horneblende or biotite.  

They are visually distinctive and can be seen from much of the Greater Vancouver area.

The North Shore Mountains are a small subrange of the Pacific Ranges, the southernmost grouping of the vast west Coast Mountains.  Formed in the Cretaceous Age, roughly 120 million years ago these are the oldest rocks on the West Coast of North America. 

The Indigenous Squamish people named these two peaks "Ch'ich'iyúy Elxwíkn" ('Twin Sisters'). The mountains remain sacred for their legal marker of a peace treaty, family lineage histories, and spiritual value. 

The two peaks were transformed by the Sky Brothers, or Transformers, after twin sisters that married Haida twins created the path for the war to end between the Squamish and Haida people. 

The families that made the Peace Treaty still live in the Squamish and Haida Nations. 

teSometime around 1890, Judge John Hamilton Gray proposed that Canada rename the mountain peaks to lions.  The name change harkens to  Landseer Lions in Trafalgar Square, London.

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Taken in: Canada / British Columbia / Lions Bay (show map)

Taken on: January 9, 2021

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Camera:	Nikon D750
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Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/320)
Focal Length:	300mm
ISO:	140
Exposure Bias:	+1/3 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Other
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