Mount Gilliland
| 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: | Head of Brazion Creek, SW of Chetwynd, Peace River Land District |
| Tags: | World War II |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 55°21'19"N, 122°11'55"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 93O/8 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 10 November 1965 on 93O/8. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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Named to remember Canadian Army Battery Quartermaster Sergeant Norman Walter Gilliland, M61002, from Dawson Creek; serving with 3 Lt.A.A.Regmient, RCA, when he died 29 September 1944, age 44. He is buried in Wijnegem Communal Cemetery, Belgium; survived by parents Frederick James Gilliland and Bessie Matilda Gilliland, of Bowden, Alberta. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |