The 1911 Alpine Club of Canada–Smithsonian Robson Expedition was led by Arthur Oliver Wheeler [1860–1945]. On the Robson River below Emperor Falls, Wheeler in described “a second big fall of 150 feet. It suggests the name of the ‘Fall of the Pool.’ Two-thirds of the way down is a tiny pool in the rock into which the water leaps; the lower part is more broken.”

In 1917, while serving in the Canadan Army Medical Corps in France, George R. B. Kinney [1872–1961] wrote to Arthur Hinks, the secretary of the Royal Geographical Society in London, that he would be pleased to deliver a lecture on mountaineering in the Canadian Rockies, illustrated by “100 choice colored lantern slides, second to none (by report), and taken from my own negatives.… Mine are the original photographs taken of these hither to unexplored regions, and names like ‘Berg Lake,’ ‘Tumbling Glacier,’ ‘Robson Glacier,’ ‘Mt. Rearguard,’ ‘the Helmet,’ and ‘the Extinguisher’ that now have a permanency, were my suggestions, while Dr. Coleman gave the name of Lake Kinney on Mt. Robson’s western foot.” [1] Kinney delivered the lecture in January 1919, and was subsequently elected a Fellow of the RGS.

Kinney had accompanied Arthur Philemon Coleman [1852–1939] and Coleman’s brother Lucius on the first mountaineering expedition to Mount Robson in 1907, when they approached from the Fraser River side and got little further than Kinney Lake. They returned in 1908, guided by Adolphus Moberly [1887– ?] and John Yates [1880– ?], who took them up the Moose River valley and approached Robson from the north. They became the first people to report on Berg Lake, Tumbling Glacier, Robson Glacier, Rearguard Mountain, The Helmet, and Extinguisher Tower, features Kinney named after their appearances.

“At a bold tower of rock, which had been nicknamed the Extinguisher, the Robson glacier widens out and bends nearly at a right angle toward the main peak,” wrote Coleman. [2]

Smithsonian Institution director Charles Doolittle Walcott [1850–1927] called it the most valuable spot in the Rockies to geologists. “One of the names proposed by Dr. Coleman for a prominent monadnock that is surrounded by ice, east of Mount Robson, is ‘The Extinguisher’ and Mr. Wheeler has adopted the name on his map. I presume Dr. Coleman had in mind the conical extinguisher used in putting out candles in the olden times. It so happens that that particular mass of rock carries a very important bed of Cambro-Ordovician fossils, and will be referred to many times in the future in literature. It may be that I shall suggest a shorter and more euphonious name for it,” Walcott wrote to the Surveyor-General in 1912. [3]

His suggestion, “Billings Butte”, was not adopted. Walcott was referring to Arthur Oliver Wheeler [1860–1945].

“On the cirque immediately below Mount Resplendent stands a quaint tower of rock some 500 feet above the ice, named the Extinguisher from its likeness to the conical cap once used to put out the candle,” wrote Elizabeth Parker [1856–1944], a member of the Alpine Club of Canada’s 1913 camp at Robson Pass. [4]

Everett Creek adopted in the 1930 BC Gazetteer, as labelled on a BC Lands’ map of 1923, not “East Fork Slim Creek” as identified on earlier maps.

One of the peaks of Mount Lyell, named for Swiss guide Ernest Feuz (1889-1972), a mountain guide for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He was the son of Edward Feuz Sr. and brother of Edward Feuz Jr.

Ernst Feuz came to Canada in 1909 and guided at Glacier House until 1925, when he was transferred to Lake Louise. The Feuz family lived at Golden, B.C.

The peaks on Mount Lyell include Rudolph Peak, Edward Peak, Ernest Peak, Walter Peak and Christian Peak (Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, 1972).

The name commemorates fur trader Edward Ermatinger (1797–1876), who was born on the Mediterranean island of Elba where his father was employed by the British Army. Ermatinger was educated in England, and in 1818 apprenticed to Hudson’s Bay Company . In 1825 he was posted to the Columbia Department, which then included New Caledonia. He remained in the service of the HBC for ten years, and in 1830 retired to St. Thomas, Upper Canada.

The 1911 Alpine Club of Canada–Smithsonian Robson Expedition was led by Arthur Oliver Wheeler [1860–1945]. He wrote:

Below Berg Lake the Robson River enters a narrow rock canyon, and soon becomes a cascade, careening wildly down its bed and showing a great swirl of white water. Then comes a line of cliffs extending part way across the valley. Over this the river makes a grand and spectacular leap to a rock floor below, where it turns sharply to the left and pours madly though an extremely narrow box canyon which it has carved in the bed rock. The fall is magnificent and I know of no other of quite the same type. The total drop in 145 feet by aneroid barometer measurement. At a distance of 60 feet from the crest, the full volume of the water strikes a ledge and bounds outwards for 30 feet, creating a splendid rocket which gives the idea of a giant leap. There is such a feeling of majesty and power inspired by the spectacle that I christened it “The Emperor Falls.”

“Emerald Ridge” adopted in 1973 as agreed by British Columbia, not “Avalanche Ridge” as identified on earlier maps. The name is applied to the ridgeline, not the entire massif.

[the ridge] …is distinctive for its great areas of slide slopes, many of which are mantled with bright green deciduous growth.

— memo from BC Parks 1972, file C.1.62

Ella Frye [1907–1995] trapped on the North Thompson river for over 50 years. Ella was born at Red Deer, Alberta, while her family was moving west from North Dakota. In 1911 her parents Fred and Edith (Bronson) arrived at Tête Jaune Cache, and soon afterwards moved to Albreda. Grandfather Bronson started teaching her trapping when she was six years old. “It got into my blood and I kept at it,” Ella said. She married Tom Smith around 1926. In 1933, she started trapping on the North Thompson.

In 1971, according to a report in the local newspaper, she was “the only woman in the area who is a licensed trapper.” Among her siblings were brothers Mike (“Small Frye”) [1911–1988] and Jules [1916–1980] and sister Francis [Knutson].

Francis’s husband Louis Knutson said that he started the trap line on this creek in 1910 and after spending a few years away from the area gave it to Ella.