Mount Northover
| 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 in Height of the Rockies Provincial Park, E of Invermere, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°35'21"N, 115°14'26"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82J/11 |
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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 #10, surveyed in 1916, published in 1917. Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |
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"Named by interprovincial boundary surveyors, after Lieutenant A.W. Northover, MC, who served with the 28th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Forces." [Lieut. Northover's account of Canadian troops' activities at the St. Eloi Mine Craters was published in the Lethbridge Daily Herald 17 May 1916.] Source: Place Names of Alberta; published for the Geographic Board by Department of Interior, Ottawa, 1928. |