Mount Jarvis

Alberta-BC boundary. Mount: Fraser River drainage
N of Kakwa Lake near BC-Alberta boundary
54.0736 N 120.1669 W — Map 93I/1 — GoogleGeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1877 (CPR Report)
Name officially adopted in 1917
Official in BCCanada

Adopted by the Geographic Board of Canada in 1917, as identified in the 1877 Canadian Pacific Railway report. Edward Worrell Jarvis [1846–1894], with his assistant Charles Francis Hanington [1848–1930], explored the region in 1875 in connection with CPR surveys.

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