| 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: | On E slope of Mount Blanshard, W of Alouette Lake in Golden Ears Provincial Park, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°21'21"N, 122°29'53"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/8 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 4 July 1957 on 92G/SE, as named in 1939 by a climbing party. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office staff. |
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First ascent (eastern face of NE peak of Mount Blanshard) credited to Sam Edge of Port Haney, and a companion, 1876. Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |
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Named after the late Sam Edge, who lived somewhere outside Haney, and who climbed this mountain in 1876; several members of the Edge family were still living in Haney in 1939 (letters inward #1387038 and # 1390968, files B.1.41 and L.1.56) Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office staff. |
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Mis-identified as "Mt. Edge" in Dick Culbert's 1963 Climbers Guide to the Coastal Ranges of British Columbia, p.58. Mis-identified as "Edge Mountain" in Culbert's article for Canadian Alpine Journal vol 52, 1969, p.79. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office staff. |