| 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: | NW. of Remillard Peak, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°45'38"N, 118°07'56"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82M/16 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 23 January 1973 on 82 M/16, as submitted November 1971 by mountaineer W.L. Putnam. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Andrew Onderdonk, engineer who undertook the first serious railway (CPR) construction in the Canadian Rockies. Born 30 August 1848 in New York City, died at Oscawana-on-the Hudson, New York, 21 June 1905. Having obtained a contract from the Canadian government in 1879 to build the CPR from Savona to Port Moody, through the Thompson and Fraser canyons, Onderdonk supervised construction of the line from his headquarters at Yale. To transfer building materials he built the Skizzy in 1882 - the only steamer ever to negotiate the Fraser Canyon. By 1885, the 127-mile section of line was completed. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |