Milligan Peak adopted in the 1930 BC Gazetteer, as labelled on BC map 1H, 1917. Form of name changed to Mount Milligan 2 June 1950 on 93N.

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After John ("Jack") Mudie Milligan, BCLS, who had conducted surveys in the Nation Lakes area in 1913. Born 1886, presumably at Victoria; received his commission as a BC Land Surveyor in 1910; served in World War I and was held in a German prisoner of war camp for 3 1/2 years; died in 1927. Note that Milligan Creek in the Peace River District was named for his brother, Lieutenant George Berry Milligan, MC, also a BCLS, who was killed in action in World War I. [Obituary or biography was published in the 1928 Annual Report of the Corporation of Land Surveyors of British Columbia.]

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"Jack" was with the 1st Canadian Division, and was captured by the Germans on the first day of the Second Battle of Ypres (22-27 April 1915); this was also the first day that the Germans used chlorine gas. Following his return to Canada in 1919 he did not continue with survey work, but engaged in mine management at Alice Arm, Smithers and at Cranbrook. His health had been permanently affected by the gassing and by the 3 1/2 years spent as a POW, and while at Cranbrook he became ill, returned to Victoria and died there 7 September 1927. Another brother, Lieutenant Alexander Wilson Milligan (1890-1918) was also killed in WW I. A fourth brother, Charles Napier Milligan, survived WW I. (excerpt from biographical details provided September 1998 by nephew, J.S. Tyhurst, file R.1.49)

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The traditional name is Shus Nádloh. ("Central Carrier Country" © Carrier Linguistic Committee, Fort St. James, 1974).

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