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Montée La Montee, La Montie, Monte, Mounte [< Cdn F rnontée mounting place < F monter mount] Obs. (except in place names)

• n. a point where travellers left a water route to take a trail leading across the plains.

  See also: leavings  

  • 1794  (1929)  Arrived the Mounte where the road goes to the S.B. Fort. . . .
  • 1854  In the evening the Men returned with the Square wood from the Monte.
  • 1949  On September 5th they reached La Montee. This place was so named because it was here that the traders took to horses, or mounted and rode either to the houses along the South Branch or westward up the River towards Alberta.