Origin of the name unknown.
Commanding Officer Charlie Leake
McBride’s 830m airstrip is named for Lieutenant Colonel Charles Leake, CD, RCAF (ret’d) [ca. 1932–2024], raised in McBride. Leake retired after 27 years in the military and returned to the McBride area. He died in Comox, British Columbia.
Leake was a partner in CCI Aviation. CCI stood for Charlie Chitwood, Charlie Leake, and Ian Monroe.
The airstrip, CAV4, accommodates small aircraft, and is operated by the Village of McBride.
Not an official name.
Buried in the McBride cemetery:
Harstad, Sig 1896 – 1979
Harstad, Eva May 1914 – 1996
Harstad, Leon S. 1944 – 2008
Harstad, Robert A. 1949 – 1993
Harstad, Sheena Maree 1969 – 1970
There is an entry for Mount Sig Harstad in the Cebuano Wikipedia, where we find that “The land around Mount Sig Harstad is mostly mountainous, but immediately surrounding it are hills. The highest point in the vicinity has an elevation of 2,816 meters and is 2.6 km south of Mount Sig Harstad. Less than 2 people per square kilometer around Mount Sig Harstad. The nearest larger town is McBride, 19.4 km north of Mount Sig Harstad. The area around Mount Sig Harstad is almost completely covered in grass.”
There is also a Mount Sig Harstad page on Geonames.
See Shelby Road.
Adopted 1987 on 93H/8, as submitted in 1985 by Water Management Branch, Prince George. Name used on water licences (earliest date not cited). Origin/significance not explained.
Provinces of British Columbia and Vancouver Island; with portions of the United States and Hudson’s Bay Territories. John Arrowsmith, 1859
Colonial Dispatches, Uvic
Detail of John Arrowsmith map,1859
Colonial Dispatches, Uvic
Detail of Tête Jaune Cache area, John Arrowsmith map,1859
Colonial Dispatches, Uvic
THE PROVINCES OF
BRITISH COLUMBIA & VANCOUVER ISLAND
WITH PORTIONS OF THE
UNITED STATE’S & HUDSONS BAY TERRITORIES.
Compiled from ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.
by JOHN ARROWSMITH.
1859
Handwritten note on map sheet: This map is unpublished but will appear in Part II of British Columbia Papers
John Arrowsmith (1790–1873) was born at Winston, County Durham, England. In 1810 he joined his uncle Aaron Arrowsmith in the cartography business. After his uncle died in 1823, the family firm was carried on by his sons Aaron and Samuel Arrowsmith, and John began working on his own. The Arrowsmiths were founding members of the Geographical Society of London in 1830. The junior Aaron left the family firm in 1832, and upon the death of Samuel in 1839, John merged it into his own successful business.
The map includes the note “Camp of Anderson’s party 1835” near the site of “Yellow Head or Tete Jaune Cache.”
Topographical Map Showing Mount Robson and Mountains of the Continental Divide North of Yellowhead Pass. Arthur O. Wheeler, 1912 Victoria Library, University of Toronto
Detail showing stations on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Victoria Library, University of Toronto
Topographical Map Showing Mount Robson and Mountains of the Continental Divide North of Yellowhead Pass
To accompany the Reports of the Alpine Club of Canada’s Expedition, 1911
From Photographic Surveys by Arthur Oliver Wheeler [1860–1945], A.C.C., Director
Annual report of the Topographical Surveys Branch, 1911-1912
With an inset showing a detail of the Geological Survey of Canada’s 1900 map of the Yellowhead Pass Route by James McEvoy [1862–1935] .
Adolphus Lake
Albreda (GTP railway point)
Alpland
Arctomys Valley
Berg Lake
Calumet Creek
Coleman Glacier
The Colonel
Colonel Creek
Emperor Falls
Extinguisher Tower [as “Extinguisher”]
Mount Fitzwilliam
Gendarme Mountain
Grant Brook
Grant Brook (GTP railway point)
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
Mount Kain
Kinney Lake
Lazuli Lake
Little Grizzly
Mount Longstaff
Lynx Mountain
Miette River
Mount Robson (railway point)
Moose Pass
Moose River
Mount Mowat
Mumm Peak
Mural Glacier
Ptarmigan Mountain
Rainbow (GTP railway point)
Rainbow Canyon
Rainbow Canyon and Falls (Moose River)
Rainbow Range
Razor Peak
Rearguard Mountain
Red Pass Junction
Red Pass
Reef Icefield
Resplendent (GTP railway point)
Resplendent Valley
Mount Robson
Robson Glacier
Selwyn Range
Smoky River
Snowbird Pass
Stoney River [as Stony River]
Swiftcurrent Creek
Terrace Glacier
Terrace Creek
The Helmet
The Dome
Valley of a Thousand Falls
Mount Toot-toot
Trio Mountain [as Trios Pk.]
Upright Mountain
Whitehorn Mountain
Wolverine Creek
Yellowhead Mountain
Yellowhead Lake
Yellowhead (railway point)
Map of the Cariboo Mining District to illustrate the report of Amos Bowman
Cariboo Gold Rush
In 1885 and 1886 Mr. Amos Bowman was engaged in geologically examining the Cariboo mining district of British Columbia, the expense of the undertaking being borne jointly by the Geological Survey of Canada and the Government of British Columbia. Mr. Bowman was assisted by Mr. James McEvoy, and for a part of the time by Messrs. S. P. Tuck and L. R. Voligny. The year 1885 was necessarily given chiefly to geographical and topographical work, but in the following year Mr. Bowman devoted most of his own time to the geological and mining features. His general report was published by the Geological Survey in the volume for 1887-88, together with a geological map of the district on a scale of two miles to an inch, and maps on a large scale of Hixon Creek and Island Mountain and Mosquito Creek.
It was intended to follow the report above mentioned by a second, in which detailed descriptions should be given of the principal auriferous creeks of the district. Maps of these creeks were prepared by Mr. Bowman and lithographed, but as he had in the meantime been obliged to sever his regular connection with the Survey in favour of urgent private business, the final correction and printing of these maps was only completed after long delays, and in June, 1894, Mr. Bowman died, without having written any descriptive matter to accompany these mining maps.
— George M. Dawson, Geological Survey of Canada, April, 1895
Amos B. Bowman was born at Blair, Ontario, but soon after, his parents moved to Ohio. Later he had a very distinguished career as a renowned scientist in Canada and the United States. Following university studies in Germany, he graduated as a civil and mining engineer, and traveled in Europe writing articles for the New York Tribune. An outstanding authority on geology, he had charge of a five-year California geological survey. He then joined an official Canadian geological survey, surveying the Cariboo mining region, and prepared reports on many sections of British Columbia.
Mr. Bowman promoted the interests of Fidalgo Island in British Columbia, whose possibilities impressed him. In recognition of his services, the town of Anacortes was named after his wife, Anna Curtis Bowman. He published a newspaper, and gave liberally in land to induce the building of a railroad up the Skagit Valley. It was said of this outstanding scientist that “he often impoverished himself to enrich others.”