Mount Elma
| 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: | S side of Lake Helen Mackenzie, Forbidden Plateau, Strathcona Provincial Park, Comox Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°42'26"N, 125°19'26"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 7 October 1948 on 92F/11, as originally submitted in 1935 by Comox Mountaineering Club (file F.2.34). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named (by Ruth Masters/Comox & District Mountaineering Club?) for Elizabeth Mary "Elma" Pearse, wife of Theed Pearse, mayor of Courtenay 1928-29. In 1930, Clinton Wood led Elma's party into this area and she evidently rode her horse to the top of this mountain! [Elma was the daughter of Sir Robert Llewelyn, governor of Granada; she married Theed Pearse in 1919 and remained in Courtenay until her death in 1969.] Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |