Mount Joffre
| 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: | On BC-Alberta boundary, between Height of the Rockies and Elk Lakes Provincial Parks, E of Invermere, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°31'41"N, 115°12'24"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82J/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 23 February 1918 as labelled on BC-Alberta boundary sheet 9, 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 by interprovincial boundary surveyors, after Marshall Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre (1852-1931), Commander-in-Chief of the French armies, 1915-17. [elsewhere he is identified as General...] Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |