| 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: | Head of Parsnip River at SW corner of Monkman Provincial Park, S of Tumbler Ridge (municipality), Cariboo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 54°34'08"N, 121°25'57"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 93I/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 1 May 1934 on 93/NE. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in 1915 by George V. Copley, surveyor, after Frederick K. Vreeland of New York, who spent three years doing exploration work in the vicinity of the McGregor River and the headwaters of the Parsnip River, 1912, 1913 and 1915. (June 1975 letter from Copley, file P.1.47). Vreeland returned to the area during the 1916 season also, supplying much valuable mapping information to the BC Lands Branch (map on file V.1.33). Vreeland's "Early Visits to Mount Sir Alexander" was published in the 1930 American Alpine Journal, pp.114-119 with map (copy received February 2000, file V.1.33) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"...unfortunately I have no valid claim for the naming of this particular mountain, and I feel constrained, most regretfully, to make the unusual request that this naming be not confirmed. If it were confirmed I would find myself guilty of a practice that I have so often deplored in a certain type of traveler who attaches names of his own making to objects that have long been otherwise known...". (30 January 1934 letter from Frederick Vreeland to Geographic Board of Canada). Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |