The mountain was named in 1884[4] after Cyrus West Field, an American merchant who had laid the first Atlantic cable, 1858, a second in 1866; Mr. Field was visiting the Canadian Rockies the year as a guest of the CPR who were building the national railway, at the naming of a station and a mountain.

[3] Precipitation runoff from Mount Field drains into the Kicking Horse River.

Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 1,360 meters (4,462 feet) above the river in two kilometers (1.2 mile).

Mount Field is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods.

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