| 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, S of Fortress Lake in Hamber Provincial Park, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 52°11'53"N, 117°40'19"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 83C/4 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Chaba Peak & Icefield adopted in the 17th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1921, as labelled on BC-Alberta boundary sheet 23, surveyed in 1920. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in association with Chaba River (tributary to the Athabaska River in Alberta), in turn named by A.P. Coleman after a Stoney [Indigenous person] named Job Beaver, who hunted here; "chaba" is Stoney for beaver. Source: Place Names of Alberta, Alberta Geographical Names Program and Friends of Geographical Names of Alberta Society, University of Calgary Press, 4 volumes, 1991-1996. |
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Chaba Peak named in 1892 by Arthur Philamon Coleman (1852-1939), Toronto geologist and mountaineer, after Job Beaver, a Stoney [Indigenous person] from Morley, Alberta, who hunted here; chaba is the Stoney word for beaver. Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |