| 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: | W side of Thompson River, opposite Spences Bridge (community), Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°24'27"N, 121°25'38"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92I/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Arthur Seat" adopted in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924, as labelled on BC map 2B, 1914; not "Arthur's Seat" as spelled in Geological Survey Annual Report, 1894, p.198B, and labelled on Geological Survey sheet 556, 1895; nor "Spences Bridge Mountain" as identified in 1888 survey by J.F. Garden, DLS (Field Book 4880-C, photocopy received April 1967, file L.1.57). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Geological Survey sheet 556, 1895, applies the label "Arthur's Seat" to a somewhat flat area below the summit (the seat), with an slope behind (which would be the back of the seat). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named by John Murray, Spences Bridge pioneer, because it reminded him of Arthur's Seat [sic], the 882 foot massif near Edinburgh, in turn named for the famous 6th century King. ("An Interview with Inga Teit Perkin", Nicola Valley Historical Quarterly, April 1979). [ John Murray was Inga Perkin's great uncle.] Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |