Mount Maude
| 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: | On BC-Alberta boundary, E of head of Palliser River in Height of the Rockies Provincial Park, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°42'02"N, 115°18'11"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82J/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted by the Geographic Board 23 February 1918, as labelled on BC-Alberta boundary map #10, surveyed in 1916, published in 1917. Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |
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Named in 1917 by interprovincial boundary surveyors, "After Major-General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude (1864-1917), captor of Bagdad; military secretary to the governor general at Ottawa, 1901-04." (Extract from the Canada Gazette 23 February 1918.) Source: included with note |