| Feature Type: | Range (2) - Group or chain of mountains or hills. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | S of Cranbrook, between Lake Koocanusa & Moyie Lake and Yahk River, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°14'59"N, 115°33'03"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82G/4 |
| Related Maps: |
82G/3 82G/4 82G/5 82G/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 12 December 1939 on 82/SE, as labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915, and on Dominion sectional sheet 14, Pincher Creek, 1916, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer, and as labelled on BC map 4C, 1936. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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ounded on the east by Rocky Mountain Trench; on the south by loop of Kootenay River; on the west by Yahk River & Moyie Lakes; on the north by Cranbrook plains (Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 38, p.34.) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Labelled "Duncan's Mountains" on David Thompson's Map of the North-West Territory of the Province of Canada, drawn in 1813-14 for the North West Company; presumably after his friend and fellow fur trader & explorer Duncan McGillivray. See McGillivray's Portage. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |