| 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: | N side of Puntledge River, W of S end of Comox Lake, Clayoquot Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°31'21"N, 125°17'24"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92F/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 12 December 1939 on 92F/11; confirmed 7 October 1948 on 92F/11. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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A Kowmook, Kowitchin Tribe word meaning "to see". (Tolmie, W.F. & Dawson, G.M., Comparative Vocabularies of the Indian Tribes of British Columbia, Geological & Natural History Survey of Canada, 1884, # 198, p.46B). Thus named because this is the first place from which you can see the Comox Glacier on this route; probably suggested by N.C. Stewart, BCLS, in the late 1930's. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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This is the feature labelled "Beaufort Mtn" on BC map 2A, 1913, and identified as "Mount Evans" in Geoffrey Capes' journal, describing his 1929 (July 26-30) climb to the summit of "The Dome" [now called Comox Glacier], reprinted in Canadian Alpine Journal, Volume 52, 1969, p 40- 44. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |