| 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: | Just NE of Mount Arrowsmith, between Qualicum Beach and Port Alberni, Cameron Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°14'22"N, 124°35'18"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92F/2 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"The Hump (mountain)" adopted 13 March 1947 on 92F/2, and so-labelled on 1947 & 1948 editions of 92 F/2 (not labelled on 1953 edition). Name changed to Mount Cokely 26 November 1973 on 92F/2, the well-known & preferred local name according to Ruth Masters, Comox District Mountaineering Club. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Mis-spelled "Coakley" in 1974 edition of Hiking Trails of Southeastern Vancouver Island, p.40. Apparently mis-spelled "Copley" elsewhere (map or document title/date not cited). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Re-named in association with "Cokely" triangulation station located near the summit, first occupied by Geodetic Survey of Canada 1926-27. Bronze tablet under 5-foot cairn constructed by BC triangulation survey in 1938 - since vandalized. The triangulation station named, in turn, after Leroy Sterling Cokely (1884-1956), DLS, BCLS, with Department of Lands. Cokely received his commission as a British Columbia Land Surveyor in 1910; his biography or obituary is published in the BC Land Surveyors Annual Report, 1957. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |