Mount Jarvis

Alberta-BC boundary. Mount: Fraser River drainage
N of Kakwa Lake near BC-Alberta boundary
54.0736 N 120.1669 W — Map 93I/1 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1877 (CPR Report)
Name officially adopted in 1917
Official in BC – Canada

Adopted by the Geographic Board of Canada in 1917, as identified in the 1877 Canadian Pacific Railway report. Edward Worrell Jarvis [1846–1894], with his assistant Charles Francis Hanington [1848–1930], explored the region in 1875 in connection with CPR surveys.

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