Mount Verendrye
| 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: | On W boundary of Kootenay National Park, NW of junction of Simpson and Vermilion Rivers, SE of Golden, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°00'19"N, 116°04'31"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82N/1 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Decision on 82N/SE. Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |
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Named by G.M. Dawson after Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de la Verendrye (1685-1749), the great French-Canadian explorer who with his sons sought to find the Western Sea, though it is doubtful if he ever got farther west than the Black Hills in the Dakotas. Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; 1001 British Columbia Place Names; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973. |