Named is association with Mount Geikie.

Last summer another party, this time from the United States, Professor E. W. D. Holway, whose name figures prominently in Selkirk exploration, and Dr. A. J. Gilmour set out for the same goal and on August 5 reached [the summit of Mount Geikie], over the northwest arête, which they followed to a very steep cornice overhanging the perpendicular north face of the mountain. Several minor peaks at the hitherto unexplored sources of Geikie Creek were also ascended in the twelve days’ trip.

— Fay 1915

The feature was named by the Alberta-British Columbia Boundary Commission in 1921.

The feature was named by the Alberta-British Columbia Boundary Commission in 1921, in association with Gateway Peak.

While on the summit of Mt. Postern I made an interesting discovery, namely, that Gateway Glacier as shown on the Interprovincial Boundary Sheet No. 28, is not glacier at all, but a lake! This lake, which is of a beautiful jade colour appeared to be quite a bit larger than Icefall Lake and will, I hope, eventually take its place on the map as “Jade Lake.” It should be mentioned that Jade Lake lies a in a deep cirque between Mts. Portcullis and “Warden” and is invisible from any of the survey stations.

— Wates and Gibson

In 1911, Albreda postmaster Ernest C. Cox entered in his diary, “Saw Craig, the fire warden, Ed Garrett and Kennedy.” Edmund Garrett [1879–1958] built a house west of McBride in the 1910s (it burned down in 1982). He accompanied Roy Hargreaves on a 1932 hunting trip that included Hollywood producer Darryl Zanuck. Garrett was the first grader operator in the McBride highways district; he operated the blade while another man drove the four-horse team. Garrett married Minnie Redman (1873–1966), who had come to McBride as governess for the local superintendent of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. “Minnie was a weaver, a flowery writer who specialized in obituaries, and a master of elocution,” recalls Sadie Frye (Monroe). Ed and Minnie are buried in the McBride cemetery.

Originally called Locus Peak.

Alan V. (1907–1960) and Vivian (born 1913) Frear started a dairy farm in 1932, at the end of what is now Museum Road. Alan and son Alan E. (1937-1960) were killed in a mudslide during construction of the West Twin highway bridge.

Possibly named for William Wasborough Foster [1872-1954], a major-general in the Canadian Army and accomplished alpinist, member of the party to make the official first ascent of Mount Robson in 1913. Foster immigrated to Canada in 1894 to work for the Canadian Pacific Railway before becoming B.C.’s deputy minister of public works in 1910.

The British Columbia Archives has a photograph of the Foster Creek rapids on the Columbia River taken in 1915 during a canoe trip made in by John Preston Forde, a civil engineer with the C.P.R., assistant Captain F. P. Armstrong, and 15 year old G. B. Forde. The purpose of the trip was to examine the possibilities of navigation on the Columbia. The party travelled from Robson, B.C., to Beverly, Washington, by canoe and then onwards by train and steamer to Astoria. However, it’s unclear whether Robson in this case refers to the mountain or the community at the junction of Columbia and Kootenay rivers, opposite Castlegar. Forde was assistant public works engineer for B.C. from 1911 to 1912, while W. W. Foster was deputy minister.