| 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: | W side of junction of Stikine and Chutine Rivers, SW of Telegraph Creek (community), Cassiar Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 57°39'05"N, 131°46'17"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 104G/12 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Conover Mountain adopted in 1935 on Geological Survey sheet 309A, Stikine River Area, as labelled on BC map 5C, 1929. Form of name changed to Mount Conover 6 May 1954 on 104G. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After an early propsector by that name, who with his partners Messrs. Wilson & Jackson, took out a mineral lease 31 October 1904 for property on [Barrington River]. "Some years ago Conover and Wilson (two old-timers who have lived about 2 miles above the mouth of the Chutine on the Stikine River for the last 20 years) and J.M. Jackson took out several thousand dollars from a low bench [on the Barrington River just above its' mouth]...." (BC Mines Report 1919, p.81) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |