Edge Peak
Feature Type:Peak (2) - Summit of a mountain or hill, or the mountain or hill itself.
Status: Official
Name Authority: BC Geographical Names Office
Relative Location: On E slope of Mount Blanshard, W of Alouette Lake in Golden Ears Provincial Park, New Westminster Land District
Latitude-Longitude: 49°21'21"N, 122°29'53"W at the approximate centre of this feature.
Datum: WGS84
NTS Map: 92G/8
Origin Notes and History:

Adopted 4 July 1957 on 92G/SE, as named in 1939 by a climbing party.

Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office staff.

First ascent (eastern face of NE peak of Mount Blanshard) credited to Sam Edge of Port Haney, and a companion, 1876.

Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions

Named after the late Sam Edge, who lived somewhere outside Haney, and who climbed this mountain in 1876; several members of the Edge family were still living in Haney in 1939 (letters inward #1387038 and # 1390968, files B.1.41 and L.1.56)

Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office staff.

Mis-identified as "Mt. Edge" in Dick Culbert's 1963 Climbers Guide to the Coastal Ranges of British Columbia, p.58. Mis-identified as "Edge Mountain" in Culbert's article for Canadian Alpine Journal vol 52, 1969, p.79.

Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office staff.