Adopted 2 March 1948 on 82F/6 as a long-established name, and as labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915, and identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

Named Ymir Range c1885 (?) by geologist G.M. Dawson, "....after the Norse god Ymir..... The list of names of these old gods is endless. It will be a good thing when all these hills are named. At the same time it must not be forgotten that many of them have Indian names and where these can be ascertained they should be preserved...." (The Miner [newspaper], Nelson, Saturday 15 January 1895; transcript provided by historian Innes Cooper, Armstrong).

Source: included with note

"Ymir.... the first Giant; his son was Odin's father. Odin and his two brothers killed Ymir. They made the earth and sky from him, the sea from his blood, the earth from his body, the heavens from his skull. They took sparks from Muspelheim [the land of fire] and placed them in the sky as the sun, moon and stars. A great wall which the gods built out of Ymir's eyebrows defended the place where mankind was to live. The space within was called Midgard. Here the first man and woman were created from trees - the man from an ash, the woman from an elm. They were the parents of all mankind..." (Mythology, by Edith Hamilton; Little, Brown & Company, Boston; 1942)

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