Meager, Mount, volcano, 8,793 ft (2,680 m) high, SW British Columbia, Canada, 90 mi (150 km) N of Vancouver. It is the northernmost of the Cascade Range volcanoes and the second highest peak of the Mount Meager massif. Its last known eruption occurred c.2,350 years ago, and was Canada's largest eruption of the Holocene epoch. The mountain and the massif are also subject to large landslides; in 2010 the collapse of a peak on Mt. Meager sent more than 50 million cubic yards (40 million cubic meters) of rock as far as 8 mi (13 km).
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