Farbus Mountain
| Feature Type: | Mountain - Mass of land prominently elevated above the surrounding terrain, bounded by steep slopes and rising to a summit and/or peaks. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | On BC-Alberta boundary at head of Lyell Creek, NE of Bush Arm Kinbasket Lake, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°57'47"N, 117°07'48"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82N/14 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in 1919 by the Geographic Board of Canada for inclusion on BC-Alberta Boundary Atlas map #20, as named in 1918 by interprovincial boundary surveyors. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"After Farbus, a village on the eastern slope of Vimy Ridge, about 5 miles south of Lens, in commemoration of Canadians fighting there." (17th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1921, published as a supplement to the Annual Report of the Dept of the Interior, 1922, Ottawa) Source: included with note |
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First ascent credited to E.R. Gibson and S.B. Hendricks, 17 July 1937 (Canadian Alpine Journal, 1937, p.98) Source: included with note |