Casket Pass
| Feature Type: | Pass (2) - Low opening in a mountain range or hills, offering a route from one side to the other. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | On BC-Alberta boundary at head of Forgetmenot River, N of McBride, Cariboo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 53°46'59"N, 119°55'04"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 83E/13 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 3 November 1925 on BC-Alberta Boundary sheet 37. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"North Morkill" and Sheep Creek" identified on BC name card as old/other names for Casket Pass. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named by boundary surveyors in 1923, in association with Casket Mountain [on the Alberta side of the boundary]; in turn named "due to a rock outcrop at the summit which bears a resemblance to a sarcophagus." (BC-Alberta Boundary Report, part III, p.61) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |