Howse Pass
| Feature Type: | Pass (2) - Low opening in a mountain range or hills, offering a route from one side to the other. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Crosses into Alta., W. of Blaeberry River headwaters, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°47'59"N, 116°45'04"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82N/15 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Decision in 18th Report, 1924. Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |
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"This pass was used by David Thompson in 1807 on his way to found Kootenae House on the upper Columbia River. The pass is named, however, after the next white man to go that way: Joseph Howse, who used the same route in 1810 when sent by the H.B.C. to find what the North West Company was doing on the far side of the Rockies. Howse himself established a post near present-day Kalispell, Montana." Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; 1001 British Columbia Place Names; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973. |