| 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: | On BC-Alberta boundary N of Fording River Pass, NE of Elkford, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°21'30"N, 114°47'22"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82J/7 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in Place Names of Alberta, published in 1928 by the Geographic Board of Canada, in turn as labelled on BC-Alberta boundary map #7, surveyed in 1916, published in 1917. Correct spelling of the family name confirmed as "Maclaren" 7 May 1953 (not McLaren nor MacLaren). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in 1916 by interprovincial boundary surveyors, after Brigadier-General Charles H. Maclaren, DSO, from Ottawa, who commanded a brigade of Canadian artillery during WW I. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Misspelled as "McLaren" in Place Names of Alberta, 1928. Misspelled as "MacLaren" on federal 1:50,000 map 82 J/7, ed.3, 1978. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |