Cambrai Mountain
| 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: | On BC-Alberta boundary, N of headwaters of Valenciennes River, N of Golden, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°49'58"N, 116°58'49"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82N/15 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 3 February 1920 for inclusion on BC-Alberta boundary sheet #19, as submitted November 1919 by A.O. Wheeler, interprovincial boundary surveyor. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Cambrai, a fortified town in France's Flanders area of the Scheldt which had been the site of a tank battle in late November 1917; the Royal Newfoundland Regiment were amongst the allied troops engaged in the First Battle of Cambrai (1917), and Canadian Expeditionary Forces were amongst those recapturing the town from the Germans in October 1818. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |