| 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: | W side Chilliwack Lake, S of Hope, Yale Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°03'03"N, 121°27'23"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92H/3 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 24 February 1975 on 92H/3, as submitted by Rowland C. Webb. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"After Christopher E. Webb, CE, consulting engineer with Federal Water Resources, later senior hydroelectric engineer for BC Electric Company. He first visited the area in 1916, while searching for the headwaters of Chilliwack River and a potential source of hydroelectric power for lower mainland communities. He and his wife, Frances, purchased property at the north end of Chilliwack Lake in 1927, and built a one room log cabin there in 1929. They used the cabin each summer, arriving by rail then horseback until the road was completed in the 1950's; the homestead is still used each summer by descendents. (September 1966 information from son, Roland Webb, and October 1998 information from granddaughter S. O'Callaghan, file C.1.50). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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See notation with "Rexford, Mount" - presumably Christopher Webb is/was one of the three old-timers mentioned by Emerson.] Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |