The name was adopted in 1965, referring to Ray Zillmer [1887–1960] and his son John, “the only persons known to have ascended the creek of the same name”

James Monroe Thorington [1895–1989] stated that Zillmer and his son in 1947 made the first crossing from “Tête Creek to Canoe River, thence to the N. Thompson and out to Gosnell (C.A.J., XXI, 21). A glacier heading in the only large lateral branch of Tête Creek was named Gilmour Glacier.”

Rollin T. Chamberlin, L. E. “Slim” Goodell, Allen Carpe, A. L. Withers, George Burns
University of Chicago

Jasper National Park employees pictured in front of the Park Administration Building in 1931. Group includes (sitting): E.A. Sullivan (instrument man), J.B. Snape (res. engineer), Col. S. Maynard Rogers (superintendent), H.G. Carlton (accountant), R.W. Langford (superintendent, warden). Standing: C.E. Burrows (steno), H.E. Sullivan (steno), W.R. Evans (foreman), J.R. Heckley (cashier), A.J Dube (timekeeper) W.Booth (clerk), H.S. Davis (game warden) and A.L. Withers (clerk). JYMA PA 18-110.
Jasper-Yellowhead Museum and Archives

Named in 1963 in honor of A. L. (Pete) Withers , a Jasper resident who was a pioneer climber in the area. The name was proposed by the 1949 mountaineering party of Sterling Brown Hendricks [1902–1981] and Andrew John Kauffman [1920–2002].

In 1924 Withers, Allen Carpé [1894–1932], and Rollin Thomas Chamberlin [1881–1948] went up Tête Creek “and made some fine climbs, among them Sir Wilfrid Laurier.”

In 1932, Withers accompanied Clifford White [1902–1964] of Banff, Russell H. Bennett of Minneapolis, and J. A. Weiss of Jasper, on a 480 kilometer ski trek from Jasper to Lake Louise in a 20 day period.

Withers is identified as a clerk in a photograph of Jasper National Park employees in 1931.

Newman D. Waffl
Canadian Alpine Journal

Newman Diefendorf Waffl [1879–1930] died on a solo ascent of Mount Robson. The feature has been known as Mount Waffl since that time.

A native of New York state, Waffl was for 25 years headmaster of a private academy in Orange, New Jersey. He climbed extensively in the Swiss Alps and in the Rockies. Along with Andrew James Gilmour [1871–1941] and Helen I. Buck [1884–1972], Waffle was the first to climb Mount Sir Alexander in 1929. On his return from Sir Alexander he caught his first glimpse of Mount Robson, which impressed him as unsurpassed in his climbing experience. When the rest of his party moved on, he remained for two weeks at the Berg Lake camp of Roy Frederick Hargreaves [1891–1971], climbing the surrounding peaks for better views of the eminence.

He returned the next July, and unable to attract climbing partners, proceeded on August 4 to climb alone. A sudden change of weather brought an exceptionally warm day and night, which started avalanches of unusual number and violence. When Waffl did not return on schedule, several searches were made along his route, discovering some torn clothing and a rucksack. In a letter written shortly before his death, Waffl wrote, “Mt. Robson is not so much difficult as dangerous. It is no mountain to trifle with.”

A memoriam published in the 1930 Canadian Alpine Journal states that Waffl “was a climber of unusual skill, strength, and daring, but his daring was never rashness. On the contrary, his climbing was also an intellectual as well as a physical exercise. He was not only a climber, but a mountaineer with a wide knowledge of mountains and mountain lore. He held that no climbing was good climbing which was not also safe climbing. It seems the irony of fate that a climber of such skill and experience, to whom the forseeing and avoidance of undue risk was fundamental, should have been the victim of a mountaineering accident.”

Mt. Thompson on the Canoe River near Cranberry Lake. Benjamin F. Baltzly, 1871
McCord Stewart Museum

Because of the relative proximity of Canoe Mountain and Mount Thompson at the head of the Canoe River, this name likely refers to explorer David Thompson [1770–1857], who overwintered at the mouth of the Canoe at Boat Encampment in 1811, before beginning his journey down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean.

In the reports of Ray Zillmer [1887–1960] on the exploration of the source of the North Thompson River, the “Thompson” mentioned is Sir John Thompson, Canada’s fifth Prime Minister (the name “Mount Sir John Thompson”, about 40 km northwest of here, was adopted in September 1927).

Terry Fox in Toronto during his Marathon of Hope cross-country run (July 1980)
Wikipedia

Terrence Stanley Fox [1958-81], a native of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, set out in 1980 on a cross-country run to raise money for cancer research. Fox had lost his right leg to cancer in 1977.

At Thunder Bay, after running over 3,300 miles, Fox was forced to stop his “Marathon of Hope,” to which Canadians contributed $22 million. In 1980, Fox became the youngest companion of the Order of Canada.

When the Province of British Columbia made this mountain a memorial to Terry Fox, at 2651 metres in altitude it was the highest unnamed peak in B.C. within sight of a public highway. The dedication ceremony in September 1981 was attended by B.C. premier Bill Bennett.

Named in 1884 by George Mercer Dawson after Sir Richard Temple, president of a section of the British Association. In the year that the mountain was named, Temple was elected leader of the British Association party to the Rockies.

Peter Talbot. Appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1906, served during the premierships of Wilfred Laurier and Robert Borden until he died in 1919
Wikipedia

The mountain was named by the Geodetic Survey in 1923, during the survey of the interprovincial boundary, after Hon. Peter Talbot [1854-1919], Lacombe; Member of Senate of Canada, 1906-19.

(Not named after British travel author Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot [1880–1924], who traversed the Yellowhead Pass in 1910, one year ahead of the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.)