| Feature Type: | Mount - Variation of Mountain: Mass of land prominently elevated above the surrounding terrain, bounded by steep slopes and rising to a summit and/or peaks. ["Mount" preceding the name usually indicates that the feature is named after a person.] |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | On BC-Alberta boundary, just N of Yellowhead Mountain, Cariboo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 52°54'48"N, 118°37'16"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 83D/15 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 5 November 1918; so-identitied in BC-Alberta Boundary Report, Part 2, p.25, and on BC-Alberta boundary sheet 29. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Milton & Cheadle's companion, Eugene Francis O'Beirne, who by all accounts was an accomplished freeloader, smooth talker, and clever inventor of ever-more elaborate fictions about his personal accomplishments; being interested in getting to Victoria from his present situation at Fort Edmonton, O'Beirne attached himself to Milton & Cheadle's expedition in 1864. [see "On the Trail of Mr. O'B." by Tommy Tweed - a paper delivered to the Canadian Historical Association meeting in Calgary in 1968; copy provided by Tony Cashman, Edmonton, February 2008, file J.1.49.] See also "The Overlanders of '62" by Mark Sweeten Wade, Archives of British Columbia Memoir IX, 1931, pp. 49,50. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |