| 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 inside BC-Alberta boundary, NE of junction of Rice Brook and Bush River, NE of Bush Arm Columbia Reach, Kinbasket Lake, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 52°02'27"N, 117°19'48"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 83C/3 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in the 13th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 1914, as labelled on BC map 1A, 1912. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in 1898 by British alpinist Prof. J. Norman Collie, after Rt. Hon. James Bryce (1838 - 1922), historian, diplomat, then-president of the Alpine Club; later Viscount Bryce, British Ambassador to United States, 1907-13. Extensive biography of Bryce in Dictionary of National Biography, 1922-1930 supp, Oxford 1937, pp.127-135. Biographical sketch received April 1988, file M.2.73. Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |
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First ascent: Sir James Outram and C. Kaufman, 1902. Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |