Bugaboo Pass
| Feature Type: | Pass (2) - Low opening in a mountain range or hills, offering a route from one side to the other. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Head of Bugaboo Creek, E side of Duncan River NW of Invermere, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°40'59"N, 116°45'04"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82K/10 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 9 June 1960 on 82K, as a long-established name, and as identified in Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol III, 1911 map, p.27. The name might hail from the old Bugaboo mineral claim located at the pass. See Bugaboo Creek. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |