| 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: | N of Elsay Lake, between Seymour River and Indian Arm at NW side of Mount Seymour Provincial Park, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°25'48"N, 122°55'37"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/7 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Bishop Mountain adopted in the 1930 BC Gazetteer, as labelled on BC map 5B, 1929; form changed to Mount Bishop 3 May 1951 on 92G, as had been labelled on BC map 2B, 1914. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Labelled "Godfrey Mtn" on 1915 watershed map, but never submitted or considered for adoption. Origin/significance not known. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Joseph Charles Bishop (1851 - 1913), of Bishop and Christie, Vancouver photographers. A leading mountaineer, founder and first president of the BC Mountaineering Club 1907-1910 (called that the time Vancouver Mountaineering Club). Bishop was killed in a fall into a crevass on Mount Baker in July 1913, his body recovered and buried 25 July 1913. First recorded ascent of Mount Bishop is credited to a 9 August 1908 BC Mountaineering Club party of 19, led by Fred Mills. [note: BC name files do not indicate if this feature was named in August 1908 by the first-ascent party, or if BCMC assigned this name as a commemorative gesture following Bishop's death.] Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |