Hope Hill
| Feature Type: | Hill - Elevation of terrain rising prominently above the surrounding land. |
| Status: | Official |
| Other Names: | Mount Hope |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W side of Fulford Harbour at S end of Saltspring Island, Saltspring Island Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°45'03"N, 123°29'28"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92B/14 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Hope Hill adopted 11 February 1936 on C.3451, as recommended by Hydrographic Service; not "Mount Hope" as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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This may refer to Vice Admiral Sir James Hope, KCB, Commander in Chief of North America and West Indies Station (December 1935 letter from G.G. Aitken, BC Geographic Division, to Geographic Board of Canada.) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |