Adopted 1 April 1924 as submitted by BC Geographic Division. Also Earle Range.

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

Named by the BC Geographic Division to remember Lieutenant Wallace Sinclair Earle, CE, DLS, BCLS, killed in action near Péronne, France, 16 April 1916.

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

"Was born at Belleville, Ontario, 8 February 1889, and received his early education in the public and high schools in Belleville and Picton. After teaching for one year he entered Queen's University in 1908, where he secured the Mowat Scholarship in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. He obtained his commission as a Dominion Land Surveyor in 1911, and as a British Columbia Land Surveyor in 1912, after which he opened an office in Vancouver and carried on an active practice until the winter of 1914, when he joined the University Company recruited at Kingston Ontario, afterwards known as No. 6 Company, Divisional Engineers. In October 1915 he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and was granted a pilot's certificate in December of the same year. On April 16th he was killed in the air on an artillery reconnaisance behind the German lines near Péronne. He was buried by the Germans at Clery." (from "Roll of Honour 1914 - 1918" published by the Corporation of British Columbia Land Surveyors.)

Source: included with note