Among the places renamed in 1927 by the Order in Council that created the Premier Range.
The name was known to Stanley Washburn in 1909, among those names “given by the trappers.”
Horseshoe Lake. Village of McBride top left, loop of Fraser River top right, railroad diagonally at the west edge of town
Canadian Geographical Names Database
Surveyor James Alexander Walker [1887–1959] reported in 1914 that the lake was “very popular in summer for boating and bathing.” The townsite had just been laid out the year before by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.
Adopted in 1965 as labelled on BC Lands’ map 1G, 1916. Origin/significance not recorded.
Between 1914 and 1916, Edward Willet Dorland Holway [1853–1923] of the University of Minnesota, with Andrew James Gilmour of New York, explored the southern Selkirks, the region about Mount Edith Cavell, the area north of Whitehorn Mountain, and the Cariboo Mountains near Tête Jaune Cache. Theirs was the first mountaineering expedition into the Cariboos, but continuous bad weather prevented any serious climbing.
Holways Peak was renamed “Penny Mountain” in the Premier Range proclamation.
Named in association with Holways Peak and renamed Tête Glacier in the Premier Range proclamation of 1927.
This river was known as Beaver River earlier than 1910. Around 1913 British Coumbia Land Surveyor James Alexander Walker [1887–1959] renamed it for Albert W. Holmes [died 1920s], a provincial forest ranger in McBride as early as 1915. Holmes, an American, later farmed in Dunster. He died, unmarried, in the Prince George hospital.[died 1920s].(1, 2)
Wrigley’s British Columbia Directory for 1918 lists “Holmes Albert W farming” under Dunster. (3)
A youth named Allen Holmes appears in a photograph of the McBride Trading Company in the 1920s (Valley Museum & Archives Society 2003.26.19).
“Holloway” means lying in a hollow. This mountain is described as lying in a deep, pocketed valley encircled by surrounding peaks (Boundary Commission Report, Part II, p.24)
