| Language of origin | French language |
| Feature Type: | Peak (2) - Summit of a mountain or hill, or the mountain or hill itself. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | On BC-Alberta boundary at head of Henretta Creek, just NE of Elkford, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°17'57"N, 114°45'21"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82J/7 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924, as labelled on BC-Alberta boundary sheet # 7, surveyed in 1916, published in 1917. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in 1916 by interprovincial boundary surveyors, after Conrad Marie-Louis Baril (1891-1915), survey clerk with the Surveyor-General's staff, Ottawa, 1919-15; serving as a Sapper with the 5th Field Company, Canadian Engineers, when he was killed in action 9 November 1915, age 23. Spr. Baril is bured at Wytschaete Military Cemetery, Heuvelland, Belgium; grave IV- B- 21. Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |