| 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: | E side of Tinniswood Glacier at head of Sims Creek, N of head of Princess Louisa Inlet lekw'emin (inlet), Lillooet Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°18'48"N, 123°50'22"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92J/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 12 December 1939 on Ottawa file OBF 1682. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named by Arthur Tinniswood Dalton and Percy W. Easthope, of Vancouver, in honor of the former's father, William Tinniswood Dalton (1854 - 1931), early Vancouver architect. Born in England and trained as a church architect in London; arrived in Vancouver in 1889. Designed first Tranquille Sanitarium; supervised Vancouver Court House, Customs House and other early buildings in Vancouver. Took up mountaineering as a sport in 1894, and was an enthusiastic mountaineer and explorer; one of the party credited with first ascent of Mount Garibaldi, 1907. Died in Vancouver 1931. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |