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Mount Jobe

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British Columbia. Mount
S ofMorkill River, N of Avalanche Pass
53.65 N 119.9 W — Map 83E/12 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1925
Official in BC – Canada
This mount appears on:
Boundary Commission Sheet 36 (surveyed in 1923)
Boundary Commission Sheet 37 (surveyed in 1923 & 1924)
Mary Jobe posed in winter amoungst trees in beaded buckskin clothing. n.d.

Mary Jobe posed in winter amoungst trees in beaded buckskin clothing. n.d.
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Mary Lenore Jobe Akeley [1878–1966] explored the Mount Sir Alexander area in 1914 and 1915, on expeditions guided by Donald “Curly” Phillips [1884–1938] of Jasper.

References:

  • Jobe Akeley, Mary Lenore [1878–1966]. “Mt. Kitchi: A New Peak in the Canadian Rockies.” Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, Volume 47, No. 7 (1915):481-497. JSTOR
  • Jobe Akeley, Mary Lenore [1878–1966]. “The expedition to ‘Mt. Kitchi:’ A new peak in the Canadian Rockies.” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 6 (1914–1915):135-143
  • Jobe Akeley, Mary Lenore [1878–1966]. “Mt. Alexander Mackenzie.” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 7 (1916):62–73
  • Jobe Akeley, Mary Lenore [1878–1966]. “A winter journey to Mt. Sir Alexander and the Wapiti.” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 9 (1918):58-65
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Mount Jessie

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Alberta. Mount
SE of Whiteshield Mountain
53.3022 N 119.3244 W — Map 083E06 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1956
Official in Canada

Surveyor Alan John Campbell [1882–1967] named this mountain for his sister Jessie in 1925.

A Dominion Land Surveyor, Campbell worked on the Alberta-British Columbia Boundary Commission survey from 1913 to 1924. One of the privileges that fell to him as surveyor was naming mountains and passes. In this he says that he preferred to employ descriptive terms rather than commemorate the names of persons.

In the spring of 1913 Campbell went to Tête Jaune Cache in the Cariboo mountains. He traveled the Fraser River by canoe and raft and with Dalby Brooks Morkill [1880–1955] ran the Giscombe and Goat River Rapids. Up-river from Giscombe as far as McBride, Campbell surveyed land sections. He recalled that the first building in McBride was known as Dan’s Place. All other accommodation was in the form of tents, but in Dan’s Place one could rent half a bed for an eight hour stretch. Those beds, he recalls, were never empty.

References:

  • Robson Valley Courier. Weekly newspaper published by Pyramid Press of Jasper from 1968–88 (1968–1988).
  • Holmgren, Eric J., and Holmgren, Patricia M. Over 2,000 place names of Alberta. Saskatoon: Western Producer, 1973
  • Andrews, Gerald Smedley [1903–2005]. Professional Land Surveyors of British Columbia. Cumulative nominal roll. Victoria: Corporation of Land Surveyors of British Columbia, 1978

Mount Hostility

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British Columbia. Former unofficial name
Currently known asMount Mackenzie King
Not currently an official name.
This former unofficial name appears on:
W. A. D. Munday’s map Cariboos 1925 [now Mount Mackenzie King]

Named by Walter Alfred Don Munday [1890–1950] during his explorations in the Cariboo Range:

The dominant feature of the scene was the magnificent mountain which the Carpé-Chamberlin party proposed to name Mt. David Thompson (11,250 ft.) in the belief that the pass north of it was the true source of the North Thompson River. Northward of this pass gleamed an ice guarded mountain which we refer to as Mt. Hostility (11,000 ft.). The sunlight threw into relief the whole expanse of glacier, the lower part marked by great concentric ridges where the dry glacier describes an arc of nearly 90 degrees.

Munday doesn’t elucitate on the reasons for the name “Hostility,” but the party experienced unpleasant weather.

This unofficial name was superseded in the Premier Range commemorations.

References:

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

Mount Hooker

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Alberta-BC boundary. Mount
Just east of Athabasca Pass
52.4 N 118.1167 W — Map 83D/8 — Google — GeoHack — Bivouac
Earliest known reference to this name is 1827 (David Douglas)
Name officially adopted in 1928
Official in BC – Topo map from Canadian Geographical Names
Elevation: 3287 m
This mount appears on:
John Arrowsmith’s map British North America 1832
John Arrowsmith’s map BC 1859
Palliser Map 1863
Milton and Cheadle’s map 1865
Trutch’s map of BC 1871
Tolmie and Dawson map Indian Tribes of BC 1884
Schäffer map of visits in 1907 and 1908
Cram’s map British Columbia 1913
Boundary Commission Sheet 26 (surveyed in 1920)
Boundary Commission Sheet 27 (surveyed in 1920 & 1921)
William Jackson Hooker

William Jackson Hooker


MOUNT HOOKER. 15.700 feet Initials found on trees. dated 1827. [Rylatt, p. 125]

MOUNT HOOKER. 15.700 feet
Initials found on trees. dated 1827. [Rylatt, p. 125]

This mountain overlooking the Athabasca Pass was named in 1827 by David Douglas [1799–1834], “in honor of my early patron, the Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow.” Professor Sir William Jackson Hooker [1785–1865] became Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, in 1841.

Douglas’s estimate of the height of the mountain, about 16,000 feet (4880 m) , was reduced to 9,000 feet (2740 m) in 1893 by Arthur Philemon Coleman [1852–1939].

See Mount Brown for more information.

References:

  • Douglas, David [1799–1834]. Journal kept by David Douglas during his travels in North America 1823-1827, together with a particular description of thirty-three species of American oaks and eighteen species of Pinus, with appendices containing a list of the plants introduced by Douglas and an account of his death in 1834. Royal Horticultural Society, 1914. Internet Archive [accessed 10 March 2025]
  • Wheeler, Arthur Oliver [1860–1945]. “The location of Mts. Brown and Hooker.” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 12 (1921–1922):123-129
  • Rylatt, Robert M. [fl. mid-1800s]. Surveying the Canadian Pacific: Memoir of a Railroad Pioneer. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1991, p. 123
  • Wikipedia. Hooker and Brown
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Mount Hammel

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British Columbia. Mount
Between Ptarmigan Creek and Goat River
53.4836 N 120.9339 W — Map 093H07 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1969
Official in BC – Canada
Sergeant James Shannon Hammell

Sergeant James Shannon Hammell
Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Named to remember Canadian Army Sergeant James Shannon Hammel, M15887, from Snowshoe. Serving with the Loyal Edmonton Regiment, he was killed in action in Sicily on 5 August 1943, age 41.

Sgt. Hammel is buried at Agira Canadian War Cemetery, Sicily, grave B, H, 248. At the time of his death, he was survived by wife Horah Mary Shannon-Hammel of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and by parents Isaiah and Isabella Hammel.

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Mount Halvorson

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British Columbia. Mount
SW of Legrand, E of Milk River
53.2589 N 120.5806 W — Map 093H07 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1965
Official in BC – Canada
Trooper Frank Halvorson

Trooper Frank Halvorson
Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Named to remember Trooper Frank Halvorson, H45935, from McBride; serving with the 27th Armoured Regiment, Sherbrook Fusiliers, RCAC, when he was killed in action 29 October 1944.

Frank Halvorson was son of John and Ann Halvorson, of McBride. He was born in Edmonton on November 24, 1918,and enlisted July 3, 1940, at Port Arthur, Ontario.

The Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment was formed as an infantry unit in 1940. In 1942 it was converted to an armoured regiment and renamed 27th Armoured Regiment (Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment) and joined 4th Armoured Brigade. They later transferred to the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade and saw action in Normandy and across Western Europe.

Halvorson is buried at Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery, Netherlands, grave 8, D, 7. Most of the soldiers buried at Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery lost their lives in the fighting north of Antwerp during the Battle of the Scheldt, as the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, with support from the 4th Canadian Armoured Division, worked to clear the right (north) bank of the Scheldt estuary of German forces. Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery contains 1,118 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 31 of which are unidentified.

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Mount Goslin

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British Columbia. Mount
NW of Mount Chamberlin
53.05 N 119.4333 W — Map 83E/3 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1965
Official in BC – Canada

Named to remember Canadian Army Private Earl William Goslin, M104002, from Tête Jaune Cache; serving with the Westminster Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, when he was killed in action 16 December 1944; buried in the Villanova Canadian War Cemetery, Italy, grave V- A- 10.

Goslin was originally from the Cooking Lake area of Alberta. As of January 2001 he was survived by three sisters and a growing number of nieces and nephews and their progeny. He also may have had a daughter.

References:

  • Personal correspondence. Ron Thornton. Ron Thornton (grand-nephew), Edmonton, 2001
  • The Canadian Virtual War Memorial. CVWM, Private Earl William Goslin. CVWM
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