| Feature Type: | Peak (2) - Summit of a mountain or hill, or the mountain or hill itself. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Just NE of junction of North Thompson and South Thompson Rivers, in Kamloops IR 1, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°41'50"N, 120°18'36"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92I/9 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Paul Peak adopted 5 May 1925 on Geological Survey sheet 2068, Kamloops, as labelled on Geological Survey sheet 557, Kamloops, 1895, and on BC Lands' map 1EM, 1915, and on Dominion Sectional sheet 111, Kamloops, 1916. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Had been labelled "Mount St. Paul" on Lieut. Mayne's 1859 Sketch of Part of British Columbia, and on Geological Survey sheet 978, Southern Interior of British Columbia by G.M. Dawson, 1877. Labelled "Pauls Peak" on Geological Survey sheet 557, Kamloops by G.M. Dawson, 1895. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after Jean Baptiste Lolo (1798-1868), who had given himself the name St. Paul, later known as Chief of the Kamloops Indians; the powerful chief of a powerful tribe. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"...Lolo....accompanied [Mayne] and an HBC man on their ride to the top of the mountain, '...which we christened Mount St. Paul...in honour of the old chief.' (from Commander Mayne's 1859 account: Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island)." Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; British Columbia Place Names; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997 |