| Feature Type: | Range (2) - Group or chain of mountains or hills. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Between Salmo and Columbia Rivers, S of Nelson, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°13'59"N, 117°27'03"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82F/3 |
| Related Maps: |
82F/3 82F/4 82F/5 82F/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 2 March 1948 on 82F/6, as labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915. See Bonnington Falls (community). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Identified as Beaver Mountains on Fletcher's 1894 map, 138-B1, "West Kootenay". Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Bounded by Kootenay and Columbia Rivers on the west; Pend-d'Oreille River on the south; Salmo River and Cottonwood Creek on the east; West Arm Kootenay Land and Kootenay River on the north. (Memoir 38, "Geology of the North American Codillera at 49th Parallel" by Daly (date not cited)) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |