Mount Hooker

Alberta-BC boundary. Mount
Just east of Athabasca Pass
52.4 N 118.1167 W — Map 83D/8 — GoogleGeoHackBivouac
Earliest known reference to this name is 1827 (David Douglas)
Name officially adopted in 1928
Official in BCCanada
Elevation: 3287 m
William Jackson Hooker

William Jackson Hooker

This mountain overlooking the Athabasca Pass was named in 1827 by David Douglas [1799–1834], “in honor of my early patron, the Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow.” Professor Sir William Jackson Hooker [1785–1865] became Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, in 1841.

Douglas’s estimate of the height of the mountain, about 16,000 feet (4880 m) , was reduced to 9,000 feet (2740 m) in 1893 by Arthur Philomen Coleman [1852–1939].

References:

  • Douglas, David [1799–1834]. Journal kept by David Douglas during his travels in North America 1823-1827, together with a particular description of thirty-three species of American oaks and eighteen species of Pinus, with appendices containing a list of the plants introduced by Douglas and an account of his death in 1834. Royal Horticultural Society, 1914. Internet Archive
  • Stutfield, Hugh Edward Millington [1858–1929], and Collie, John Norman [1859–1942]. Climbs and Explorations in the Canadian Rockies. London: Longmans, Green, 1903. University of British Columbia Library
  • Coleman, Arthur Philomen [1852–1939]. The Canadian Rockies: New and Old Trails. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1911. Internet Archive
  • Wheeler, Arthur Oliver [1860–1945]. “The location of Mts. Brown and Hooker.” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 12 (1921–1922):123-129
  • Wikipedia. Hooker and Brown

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