| Feature Type: | Mount - Variation of Mountain: Mass of land prominently elevated above the surrounding terrain, bounded by steep slopes and rising to a summit and/or peaks. ["Mount" preceding the name usually indicates that the feature is named after a person.] |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | NE of Comox Lake between Browns and Cruikshank Rivers, W of Courtenay, Comox Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°40'40"N, 125°14'17"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92F/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 12 December 1939 on 92 F/11 (file F.2.34). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after George Fawcett Drabble, CE, BCLS (1833 - ), an early settler who arrived in the Comox area around 1868, and in subsequent years occupied himself variously as store keeper, fur trader, magistrate and government agent. As an engineer and professional land surveyor, he surveyed many of the early pre-emptions and laid out the first roads in the Comox - Campbell River - Quadra Island area. His journals - consisting of 124 leatherbound notebooks covering the years 1865-1900, and originally bequethed to Gordon Wagner BCLS - are now held in the Archives of the Campbell River and District Museum. See also "The Valley of George Drabble", Comox Valley Echo, 27 October 1995 (file B.1.38), and a more complete biography contained in "Victorian Life on the Gulf of Georgia" by Richard Mackie, Sono Nis Press, 1995. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |