| 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: | S side of McBride Glacier at head of Cheakamus River, SE of Whistler in Garibaldi Provincial Park, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°57'50"N, 122°42'04"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/15 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Mount Sir Richard adopted 2 September 1930 with Garibaldi Park naming on 92G and 92J, as recommended by Garibaldi Park Board; not "Pyramid Mountain" as identified in some climbing literature. Also McBride Glacier. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Sir Richard McBride (1870-1917), late Premier of British Columbia. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"...after Sir Richard McBride (1870-1917) who in 1903, at the age of 33, became the youngest premier in the history of British Columbia. Knighted in 1912, McBride resigned as premier in 1915 and became the province's agent-general in London, where he died two years later. "Dicky" McBride was a courtly, warm, outgoing person full of energy and ambitions for his province." Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; British Columbia Place Names; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997 |