Mount De Voe (2 words) adopted 2 January 1923 on Strathcona Park Map # 85, as submitted by G.G.Aitken, BC Chief Geographer. Form of name changed to Mount DeVoe (1 word) 10 January 1966 on 92 F/12, being the correct form of the family name (file B.1.38).

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After William Fowler DeVoe, BCLS, who was a member of the survey party in Strathcona Park in 1913 and was drowned in Campbell River while working that year.

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Born at St. John, New Brunswick 13 June 1885, to William Judson DeVoe and Anna Douglas Fowler (1859-1886); brother Heber (1882-1912?), sister Florence Louise (1883- ). Arrived in BC in 1906 and worked at Trail then at Kaslo, where he was assistant to W.J.H.Holmes, CE & ME, on surveys around Arrow Lakes and on Skeena River. Obtained his commission as a BC Land Surveyor (#124) in the spring of 1913, and that summer worked on the Strathcona Park Survey under Col. Holmes; drowned while crossing Campbell River 12 October 1913. (excerpt from 24 March 1914 letter from W.J.H.Holmes to F.V.Longstaff, BC Archives manuscript: F.V.Longstaff #677, V.405, #317; and from Abstracts from Reports of British Columbia Land Surveyors, p72.) St. John County Probate Record (re: mother, Anna) and DeVoe's obituary received from Lindsay Elms, Strathcona Park Lodge January 1995 (file B.1.38). See also Mount Heber and Mount Judson, named by DeVoe after his brother and father.

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