| Feature Type: | Range (2) - Group or chain of mountains or hills. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Between Gamby River and Lindquist and Surel Lakes, at W extremity of Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, Range 4 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 53°18'59"N, 127°20'59"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 93E/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Tochquonyalla Mountains identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer, as labelled on topographic plan 3T255, Range 4 Coast District, drawn by Frank Swannell, BCLS, 1920-21-22. Form of name changed to Tochquonyalla Range 7 September 1950 on 93E, as identified in Bostock's "Map of the Canadian Cordillera." Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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Horetzky, in his 1877 report for Canadian Pacific Railway, p.178, identifies Tochquonyalla Lake [now known as Surel Lake]; an 1874 panoramic photo of the lakes to accompany the CPR surveys spells the name as Tochquonyala Lake (advice about the handwritten photo label provided 5 November 1976 by Andy Birrell, National Photograph Collection, Public Archives of Canada.) Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |