Titkana 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 BC-Alberta boundary, E of Berg Lake at N end of Mount Robson Provincial Park, Cariboo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 53°09'19"N, 119°03'59"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 83E/3 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Titkana Peak adopted in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924, as labelled on BC-Alberta boundary sheet 32, 1922; not "Ptarmigan Peak" as labelled on A.O. Wheeler's 1911 map of Mount Robson. Confirmed 17 January 1951 on 83SW, Jasper Park (north) sheet. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Titkana is a Stony Indian word meaning "bird". Source: Place Names of Alberta; published for the Geographic Board by Department of Interior, Ottawa, 1928. |