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Cloud Cap Mountain
British Columbia. mount
Other name of Mount Robson
Other name of Mount Robson
The earliest known description of Mount Robson is found in the journal of John M. Sellar. Sellar was an “Overlander,” members of parties of gold-seekers bound for the Cariboo. Sellar’s party passed the peak on August 26, 1862. “At 4 pm we passed Snow or Cloud Cap Mountain which is the highest and finest on the whole Leather Pass. it is 9000 feet above the level of the valley at its base, and the guide told us that out of 29 times that he had passed it he had only seen the top once before.”
Eleven months after the passage of John Sellar, on July 14, 1863, Viscount Milton and Dr. W.B. Cheadle passed the mountain in the course of their overland journey of adventure to the Pacific Coast. Their book contains the earliest known description of Mount Robson by name.
References:
- Talbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose [1880 –1924]. The making of a great Canadian railway. The story of the search for and discovery of the route, and the construction of the nearly completed Grand Trunk Pacific Railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific with some account of the hardships and stirring adventures of its constructors in unexplored country. London: Seely, 1912. Internet Archive
- Harvey, Athelstan G. “The mystery of Mount Robson.” B.C. Historical Quarterly, (1937)
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Clemina Creek
British Columbia. Creek: North Thompson River drainage
Flows SW into Albreda River near head
52.5667 N 119.1 W — Map 83D/11 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1930 (BC Gazetteer)
Name officially adopted in 1961
Official in BC – Canada
Flows SW into Albreda River near head
52.5667 N 119.1 W — Map 83D/11 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1930 (BC Gazetteer)
Name officially adopted in 1961
Official in BC – Canada
See Clemina.
Clemina
British Columbia. Railway Point
CNR, S of Albreda
52.5833 N 119.1 W — Map 83D/11 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1917 (BC map 3J)
Name officially adopted in 1961
Not currently an official name
CNR, S of Albreda
52.5833 N 119.1 W — Map 83D/11 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1917 (BC map 3J)
Name officially adopted in 1961
Not currently an official name
79 miles west of the Yellowhead Pass on the Canadian National Railway
Mile 97 in Albreda Subdivision (Jasper to Blue River as of 1977)
Canadian Northern Railway station built in 1915
Mile 97 in Albreda Subdivision (Jasper to Blue River as of 1977)
Canadian Northern Railway station built in 1915
This railway point appears on:
Canadian National Railway map 1925
Canadian National Railway map 1925
In September 1913, newlyweds Clemina Pearl (Cox) (born ca. 1890) and Charles Wilfrid Buckle came to Thompson Crossing, where Charles was construction engineer for the Canadian Northern Railway. From her home in Vancouver in 1983, Clemina Buckle wrote, “There had been eleven brides in there and each one had something named after her. My husband drew the maps. He named two places after me. I have never been back but look upon those two years as the happiest of my life.”
Clemina (Station) adopted by the BC Geographical Names Office in 1961 as labelled on BC map 3J, 1917, and on 1950 edition of 83/SW. Rescinded 15 December 1989.
References:
- Valemount Historic Society. Yellowhead Pass and its People. Valemount, B.C.: 1984
- British Columbia Geographical Names. Clemina
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Clairvaux, Mount
Alberta-BC boundary. Mount
SE of Yellowhead Lake
52.8 N 118.4 W — Map 83D/16 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1917 (BC-Alberta Boundary sheet #29)
Name officially adopted in 1928
Official in BC – Canada
SE of Yellowhead Lake
52.8 N 118.4 W — Map 83D/16 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1917 (BC-Alberta Boundary sheet #29)
Name officially adopted in 1928
Official in BC – Canada
This mount appears on:
Boundary Commission Sheet 29 (surveyed in 1917)
Pre-emptor’s map Tête Jaune 3H 1931
Boundary Commission Sheet 29 (surveyed in 1917)
Pre-emptor’s map Tête Jaune 3H 1931
“Clairvaux Mountain” adopted in Place Names of Alberta, 1928. Form of name changed to Mount Clairvaux in 1976, as originally labelled on BC-Alberta Boundary sheet 29, 1917.
Intended to express its situation at the head of a “clear valley.”
References:
- British Columbia Geographical Names. Mount Clairvaux
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Cinnamon Peak
British Columbia. Peak
SW of Mount Robson
53.0797 N 119.2572 W — Map 083E03 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1911 (Wheeler)
Name officially adopted in 1934
Official in BC – Canada
SW of Mount Robson
53.0797 N 119.2572 W — Map 083E03 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1911 (Wheeler)
Name officially adopted in 1934
Official in BC – Canada
In 1911, Arthur Oliver Wheeler [1860–1945] named this mountain Little Grizzly Peak “on account of its resemblance, on a small scale, to Mount Grizzly in the Selkirks.” Cinnamon is a coloration of the grizzly bear.
The well-known Cinnamon family of Robson Valley did not arrive in the area until the 1950s.
References:
- Wheeler, Arthur Oliver [1860–1945]. “The Mountains of the Yellowhead Pass.” Alpine Journal, Vol. 26, No.198 (1912):382
- British Columbia Geographical Names. Cinnamon Peak
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Chushina Ridge
Alberta-BC boundary. Ridge
Between Snowbird Pass and Lynx Mountain
53.1342 N 119.0486 W — Map 083E03 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1912 (Walcott)
Name officially adopted in 1924
Official in BC – Canada
Between Snowbird Pass and Lynx Mountain
53.1342 N 119.0486 W — Map 083E03 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1912 (Walcott)
Name officially adopted in 1924
Official in BC – Canada
“Chushina” is a Stoney word signifying “small” and was thought to be descriptive of this ridge when members of a 1911 Alpine Club of Canada–Smithsonian Robson Expedition named this feature.
[From the crest of Phillips Mountain] a glacier slopes down for a mile and a half to the edge of the cliffs west of Snowbird Pass. It is such a fine example of a small and complete glacier from névé to foot that I think it worthy of the name Chushina.
— Charles Doolittle Walcott [1850–1927]
Walcott applied his name to the glacier, but now it applies to the ridge.
“Chushina Ridge” is listed at Indigenous Geographical Names dataset as a word of undetermined language.
References:
- Walcott, Charles Doolittle [1850–1927]. “The monarch of the Canadian Rockies.” National Geographic Magazine, (1913):626. Internet Archive
- British Columbia Geographical Names. Chushina Ridge
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Chushina Glacier
Alberta-BC boundary. Former name: Fraser River drainage
Between Snowbird Pass and Lynx Mountain
53.1417 N 119.05 W — Map 83E/3 — Google — GeoHack
Not currently an official name.
Between Snowbird Pass and Lynx Mountain
53.1417 N 119.05 W — Map 83E/3 — Google — GeoHack
Not currently an official name.
From the crest of Phillips Mountain “a glacier slopes down for a mile and a half to the edge of the cliffs west of Snowbird Pass. It is such a fine example of a small and complete glacier from névé to foot that I think it worthy of the name Chushina,” wrote Charles Doolittle Walcott [1850–1927] after his 1912 reconnaissance of the Robson region.
References:
- Walcott, Charles Doolittle [1850–1927]. “The monarch of the Canadian Rockies.” National Geographic Magazine, (1913):626. Internet Archive
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Chilkst Peaks
British Columbia. Peaks
Premier Range
52.7047 N 119.6261 W — Map 083D12 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1962
Official in BC – Canada
Premier Range
52.7047 N 119.6261 W — Map 083D12 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1962
Official in BC – Canada
The name was adopted in 1962 as submitted by mountaineer Gertrude Smith. “This is a ridge with 5 peaks … chilkst is the Shuswap word for 5.”
References:
- British Columbia Geographical Names. Chilkst Peaks