Mount Renshaw
| 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: | Between heads of McKale River and Cushing Creek, NE of McBride, Cariboo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 53°29'40"N, 120°00'08"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 93H/8 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 13 January 1925 on BC-Alberta Boundary sheet # 36, sheet 36, from boundary surveys conducted in 1923. Also Renshaw Creek. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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"After a guide." (19th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 July 1927.) Source: included with note |
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Probably refers to the Renshaw family which, having left Oregon in 1908, settled in McBride in 1914. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |