| Feature Type: | Mountain - Mass of land prominently elevated above the surrounding terrain, bounded by steep slopes and rising to a summit and/or peaks. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | On BC-Alberta boundary, N of head of Rice Brook, NE of Bush Arm Kinbasket Lake, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°59'47"N, 117°13'00"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82N/14 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in 1920 by the Geographic Board of Canada for inclusion on BC-Alberta Boundary Atlas map #20, as named in 1918 by interprovincial boundary surveyors. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Fresnoy, a small farming village northwest of Arras in northern France, the site of a fierce battle in April 1917 that virtually destroyed the village, and the 3rd Battle of the Scarpe 3-5 May 1917, culminating in Canadian troops capturing the village; Fresnoy was recaptured by the Germans three days later, in a counterattack that pushed the Canadians and British back and established the frontline just outside the village. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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James Outram, guided by Christian Kaufmann is credited with first ascent, 1902; Outram had dubbed this "Consolation Mountain". Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |