| 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: | Between Seymour River and Indian Arm, S of Mount Elsay, NE corner of North Vancouver (district municipality), New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°23'35"N, 122°56'39"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/7 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in the 1930 BC Gazetteer, as labelled on BC Lands' map 2B, 1914. See Seymour River for origin information. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Mountain probably climbed by early goat hunters. First recorded ascent 16 August 1908 by BC Mountaineering Club party: William Gray, Fred Mills, G. Harrower, Frank Harold Smith. Three peaks on the Mount Seymour massif were explored, [this] last being nicknamed Third Pump Peak from Smith's remark that a storm-riven stump near the summit looked like a pump." Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |
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Named after Frederick Seymour (1820-1869), who had succeeded James Douglas as Governor of the Colony of British Columbia (ie. mainland portion only), 1864-69. Also Seymour River. Note that the exact date these features were named is not known. British Admiralty Charts #922 and #1922, published through 1886, locate but do not label these features. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |