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Incisor Peak

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British Columbia. Former unofficial name: Fraser River drainage
Premier Range
Not currently an official name.
This former unofficial name appears on:
W. A. D. Munday’s map Cariboos 1925

Among the names no longer to be used in the vicinity of the Premier Range.

References:

  • Anon. “Place names in the Premier Range, Cariboo Mountains, B.C.” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 46 (1963):20. Alpine Club of Canada
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Bivouac Peak

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British Columbia. Former unofficial name: Fraser River drainage
Possibly Mount John Oliver
52.8833 N 119.6833 W Google — GeoHack
Not currently an official name.
This former unofficial name appears on:
W. A. D. Munday’s map Cariboos 1925 [former name]

In July 1925, Walter Alfred Don Munday [1890–1950] and Phyllis Munday [1894–1990] made an expedition into the Cariboo Range.

Two parties of climbers had preceded them: Edward Willet Dorland Holway [1853–1923] andAndrew James Gilmour [1871–1941] in 1916;and Allen Carpé [1894–1932] and Rollin Thomas Chamberlin [1881–1948] in 1924.

The latter party made two major climbs, the first ascents of Mt. Titan (11,850 ft.) and Mt. Challenger (10,900 ft.). They also climbed three minor mountains: Gunboat (10,000 ft.); a shoulder of Mt. Titan which they called Bivouac Peak (10,150 ft.) and a triple summit (10,250 ft.), which Mr. Munday refers to as Holway’s Peak, he having made the first ascent of its northerly summit. (The elevation and other names are Mr. Carpé’s.)

— Munday
References:

  • Munday, Walter Alfred Don [1890–1950]. “In the Cariboo Range – Mt. David Thompson.” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 15 (1925):130-136. Alpine Club of Canada
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Aspiration, Mount

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British Columbia. Former unofficial name
Mount John Oliver
52.8833 N 119.6833 W Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1925 (Munday)
Not currently an official name.
This former unofficial name appears on:
W. A. D. Munday’s map Cariboos 1925 [now Mount John Oliver]

At 3:30 a.m. we started up Bivouac Peak. The lower part of the arête is crumbling, garnet sprinkled, micaceous rock; the upper part firmer, and here were stretches of sodden snow overhanging the cirque of the small glacier between Bivouac and Mt. Welcome. The sun came up directly behind Lynx Mountain. We found in several places recognizable footprints and marks of axe points of the Carpé expedition.

The summit revealed the forbiddingly bare ice of the mile-long ridge soaring 2500 feet to the eastern peak of Mt. Titan. Three miles to the westward, across the huge neve which drains to Kiwa Creek, rose the symmetrical form of Kiwa Peak (11,250 ft.), its broken ice-wall outlined along the crest by pencillings of rock. Northeastward stood the fine rock mountain whose peak was visible 6000 feet above our base camp and is seen from Tête Jaune station. We named it Mt. Aspiration (10,500 ft.). To left of it showed the most amazing steeple, crowning three equal buttresses rising almost perpendicularly out of unseen depths. We named it Symmetry Spire.

— Munday
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References:

  • Munday, Walter Alfred Don [1890–1950]. “In the Cariboo Range – Mt. David Thompson.” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 15 (1925):130-136
  • Carpé, Allen [1894–1932]. “Climbs in Cariboo Mts. and Northern Gold Range, Interior Ranges of British Columbia.” Alpine Journal, Vol. 37 (1925):63

Collett Creek

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British Columbia. Creek: Fraser River drainage
Flows NE into Fraser River S of Raush River
53.165 N 119.9317 W — Map 083E04 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1988
Official in BC – Canada
Pilot Officer Alfred John Collett

Pilot Officer Alfred John Collett
Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Named to remember Alfred John Collett, a Pilot Officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force killed in action 11 June 1944. He enlisted at New Westminster on 12 December 1942 and was serving with 460 (R.A.F.F) Squadron when he was killed. Buried at Viroflay New Communal Cemetery, Yvelines, France, grave B- 23.

According to his RCAF Service Book, Collett was born on 18 August 1915. Religion Presbyterian . Occupation in civilian life: Lumber manufacturer. Person to be informed of casualties: Mrs. M. S. Collett, RR1, New Westminster BC.

Written on the top of his service book: Missing 10 June 1944.

References:

  • The Canadian Virtual War Memorial. CVWM, Pilot Officer Alfred John Collett. CVWM
  • British Columbia Geographical Names. Collett Creek