"Mont des Poilus (not Habel)" adopted in the 16th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1919.

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Habel Mountain labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915. "Poilus Mountain (not Habel nor Hidden)" identified in 1930 BC Gazetteer.

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One week before the cessation of World War I, the GBC reviewed several names of distinguished allied war leaders, and - among others - named eleven prominent peaks in the Rocky Mountains after French leaders: Castelnau, Joffre, Pétain, Foch, Mangin, Leman, Leval, Cordonnier, Sarrail, Nivelle and Lyautey. Mount Courcelette was named in memory of the "glorious action of the Canadians who fought so gallantly at the Somme...", and the board further decided to honour the great heroism of the common French soldier (poilu). Surveyor Arthur O. Wheeler was invited to suggest a feature, and he chose a prominent peak previously named in 1898 for Jean Habel, a mountain climber from Berlin who had climbed in this area in 1897.

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"Commemorating the French soldier in the Great War and replacing the name Habel given to the peak in 1898 after Jean Habel, Berlin, Germany, who climbed in the region in 1897. Present name suggested by "Les Annales", Paris, France which, in an article 25 August 1918 said: "We beg our allies...to keep one mountain...for the great hero of the age, the humble and fascinating Poilu..."." (16th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1919.)

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