Mount Talbot

Alberta-BC boundary. Mount
Alta-BC boundary, N of Shale Pass, S of Morkill Pass
53°37’00” N 119°43’00” W — Map 83E/12 — GoogleGeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1923
Name officially adopted in 1925
Official in BCCanada
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

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. See Talbot 1910 map.

References:

  • Wheeler, Arthur Oliver [1860–1945], and Cautley, Richard William [1873–1953]. Report of the Commission Appointed to Delimit the Boundary between the Provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. Part iii-a. topographical surveys of the watershed. 1922, 1923, 1924. Ottawa: Office of the Surveyor General, 1925. Whyte Museum
  • Canadian Board on Geographical Names. Place-names of Alberta. Published for the Geographic Board by the Department of the Interior. Ottawa: Department of the Interior, 1928. Hathi Trust
  • Wikipedia. Peter Talbot (politician)
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