Adopted 2 April 1929 on Garibaldi Park Map, as submitted September 1928 by T. Fyles (file P.1.24).

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

Named after Charles Fee (1862-1927), active member of the BC Mountaineering Club. Born in South Durham, Eastern Townships, Quebec; at the age of 18 he joined his father in the hemlock bark business and eventually secured large hemlock limits, employing hundreds of men in stripping the bark of trees before shipping it to market in Massachusetts for tanning. He continued in this work until 1910, when he came to Vancouver, purchased property on Granville St and built the Martinique Hotel. Although he had always enjoyed hunting & hiking in the woods, he become an enthusiastic mountaineer only later in life; was an active member of the BC Mountaineering Club; climbed Mt. Garibaldi and other peaks in the vicinity; assisted at several Alpine Club camps in the Park; climbed Mts. Sir Donald, Rogers, Hermit, Tupper and other peaks in the Selkirks and made many climbs on the mountains areound Vancouver. He died in Vancouver in 1927. (September 1928 letter from T. Fyles, file P.1.24)

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

Named in 1928 by his fellow-mountaineers E.C. Brooks, W.G. Wheatley, B. Clegg, R.E. Knight and T. Fyles, after Charles Fee, Vancouver hotel owner and mountaineer....

Source: Provincial Archives' Place Names File (the "Harvey File") compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions

March 1994 correspondence from John Fee of Vancouver, with origin of 5 other "Fee" features in Canada, on file J.1.38.

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