Mount Kinch
| 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: | Between Trudel and Kingcome Glaciers, NW of head of Knight Inlet, Range 2 Coast Land District |
| Tags: | World War II |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°26'18"N, 126°11'05"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92M/8 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 28 March 1967 on 92M. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named to remember Canadian Army Signalman Oddrey James Kinch, 47053, enlisted at New Westminster; serving with Royal Canadian Corps of Signals when he died 7 September 1941, age 21. Buried at Murrayville Cemetery, Legion plot grave 2. Survived by parents James Cleveland Kinch and Elizabeth Kinch, Langley Prairie. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |