| 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: | S side of Owikeno Lake below (west of) Doos Creek, E of Rivers Inlet (community), Range 2 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°36'29"N, 126°57'24"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92M/10 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Mount Manzo Nagano adopted 1 March 1977, to commemorate the centennial of the arrival of the first Japanese settlers in Canada. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Manzo Nagano (1853-1923) was the first Japanese citizen to arrive in BC; born at Kuchinotsu-mura (a village near Nagasaki) 26 November 1855, and arrived at New Westminster in 1877, age 22. He returned to Japan in 1884 and married before returning to Victoria in 1892, working variously as a fisherman, sealer and shopkeeper. His store burned down in 1922, and Nagano returned to Japan shortly thereafter, where he died 23 May 1923. 1907 photograph of Manzo Nagano and crew of a sealer held in Provincial Archives. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |