Mount Brooks adopted 12 December 1939 on 92F/11, as submitted October 1935 by Eugene Croteau (file F.2.34). Name changed to Mount Allan Brooks 4 November 2004 on 92F/11, as submitted by Ruth Masters with the agreement of the Brooks family, and as endorsed by BC Parks.

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Well-established locally as "Limestone Ridge"; this misnomer was pointed out by the Comox & District Mountaineering Club, who suggested that the feature be renamed after Allan Brooks (1869-1946), naturalist, ornithologist, artist, who had a seasonal home at Comox from 1927 until his death in 1946. In 1905 Brooks established his permanent home at Okanagan Landing, eventually developing on his 3-acre site the densest population of nesting birds recorded in North America. Described as "the most eminent bird painter in North America..." Mr. Brooks was awarded the Governor General's gold medal for his artistic work. Extensive biographical information published in The Condor magazine, vol XL, 1938, pp.12-17; obituaries in Canadian Nature magazine, May-June 1946, and in the provincial museum's magazine, The Murrelet, vol 27 No. 1, 1946.

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Dedication extended in 2004 to include Allan Brooks' son, Allan Cecil Brooks (1926-2000), biologist, teacher, naturalist; long-time resident of South Pender Island before moving to the Comox area in the early 1980s.

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