| Feature Type: | Peaks - Summit of a mountain or hill, or the mountain or hill itself. Plural of Peak (2). |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Surrounding Bugaboo and Vowell Glaciers at the SE end of Bugaboo Provincial Park, NW of Invermere, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°44'44"N, 116°47'20"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82K/10 |
| Related Maps: |
82K/10 82K/15 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 7 May 1975 on 82K/NE in association with Bugaboo Creek and Pass. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Extends from Howser Peak on the south park boundary to Northpost Spire on the north side of Cobalt Lake, incorporating 20 or more named and unnamed peaks and spires. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Indians and prospectors were the first to come this way, but the mineral claims proved to be little else than a 'bugaboo'. " (from "Days in the Bugaboo Mountains, by J.M. Thorington, The Purcell Range of British Columbia, 1946, p.112). Source: included with note |
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"Probably named after the Bugaboo mining claim at the crest of [Bugaboo Pass]. Writing in 1906 to James White, the federal Chief Geographer, an informant declared, 'Bugaboo was named by a Scotchman on account of the loneliness of the place.' " 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 |
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Webster's Dictionary identifies 'bugaboo' as an imaginary object of fright; hobgoblin, etc - seemingly a variation from the colloquial references to loneliness and/or hopelessness. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |