| Feature Type: | Mountain - Mass of land prominently elevated above the surrounding terrain, bounded by steep slopes and rising to a summit and/or peaks. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | On BC-Alberta boundary just SE of Kishinena Peak, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°04'57"N, 114°07'57"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82G/1 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Festubert Mountain adopted in 1917 for inclusion on BC-Alberta boundary sheet #1. "Festubert Mountain (not Burgess)" identified in the 16th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1919. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Map titles/dates labelling "Burgess Mountain" are not cited. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in 1915 by interprovincial boundary surveryors after the village east of La Bassée, France, where Canadian troups fought in 1915. Source: 16th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1919 (supplement to the Annual Report of the Dept of the Interior, 1919, Ottawa) |