| 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: | Just E of Falkland, NW of Vernon, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°29'01"N, 119°29'34"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Mount Connaught adopted in the 11th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 30 June 1912. Incorrectly identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer as Connaught Mountain. Form of name corrected to Mount Connaught 7 February 1951 on 82L/SW. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After HRH the Duke of Connaught, Governor General of Canada, 1911-1916. Born Arthur William Patric Albert, third son and seventh child of Queen Victoria, at Buckingham Palace 1 May 1850; entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1866. Created Duke of Connaught and Strathern, and Earl of Sussex, in 1874. Married Princess Louise Marguerite of Prussia 1879. Accompanied the Expeditionaray Force to Egypt in 1882 and commanded the Guards Brigade at Tel-el-kebir. In 1886 he went to India. Commander in Chief of Forces in Ireland, 1900. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |