Mount Tod adopted 3 November 1932 on 82L/NW, as labelled on Geological Survey sheet # 11, Shuswap, 1898, and on Dominion Sectional sheet 112, Sicamous, 1912 et seq, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer.

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Mis-spelled "Todd" Mountain on BC map 1EM, 1915.

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After John Tod (1794-1882), longtime Hudsons Bay Company employee and eventually chief trader at the HBC post in Kamloops, 1842-51.

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Unsuccessful proposal by owners/developers of Sun Peaks resort to rename this mountain "Sun Peaks" to improve marketing prospects - "tod" is the German word for death, and owners were concerned that the mountain's name would negatively impact potential European clientele.

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Early Hudson’s Bay Company official John Tod (1794-1882) was a significant figure in the colonial history of BC. He was born in Scotland and worked in a Glasgow cotton warehouse before coming to Canada in 1811 as a clerk with the Earl of Selkirk’s Red River settlers, arriving at York Factory in the Edward and Ann. Tod, who was not liked by Hudson’s Bay Company governor George Simpson, spent the next 35 years working at isolated trading posts, including Trout Lake, Severn House, Island Lake, Fort George and Nelson River. Although considered a “highly meritorious officer” and “a man of excellent principle,” he was also thought, by one senior Hudson’s Bay Company official, at least, to have “vulgar manners.” He was the clerk in charge at McLeod Lake for a decade, 1824-33, before finally being promoted to chief trader in 1835. After two leaves of absence, during which he returned to the United Kingdom, Tod passed another decade in BC’s southern interior, managing Fort Alexandria, 1839-42, and Fort Kamloops, 1842-49. A series of wives, both First Nation and European heritage (Cathrine Birstone, Eliza Waugh, Sophia Lolo), enlivened his exile, as did numerous children; Mary Tod I (qv) off Oak Bay is named for one daughter, Emmaline Bank and Mohn Shoal (qv) in Milbankes Sound for another. In 1850, in poor health, he retired from the Hudson’s Bay Company and settled near Fort Victoria on a fine 40 hectare holding at Oak Bay, which he called Willows Farm (and later expanded to 165 hectares). Governor Richard Blanshard named him to Vancouver Island’s legislative council in 1851, and he served until 1858; James Douglas made him a justice of the peace. Tod’s 1851 Oak Bay home, a designated heritage house, is one of the oldest surviving buildings in western Canada. Tod Creek, which flows into Tod Inlet, is also named for him, as is Mount Tod in the Kamloops area. The traditional Wsanec (Saanich) First Nation name for the inlet is Snitcetl, meaning “place of blue grouse.”

Source: Scott, Andrew; "The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names"; Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, 2009, pp. 596.