| 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: | W side of Kilippi Creek, between Machmell River and Klinaklini Glacier, NW of head of Knight Inlet, Range 2 Coast Land District |
| Tags: | World War II |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°33'12"N, 126°15'06"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92M/9 |
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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 Trooper Frederick Conery, K49891, enlisted at Vancouver; serving with H.Q. 4th Cdn. Armd. Bde, Royal Canadian Armoured Corps, when he was killed in action 14 August 1944. Buried at Bretteville-Sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, Calvados, France, grave VI- D- 14. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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The name "Fred Conery" is identified on South Pender Island's "Roll of Honour" (published in A Gulf Islands Patchwork, p.188); understood to be Trooper Frederick Conery, as the Commonwealth War Graves Commission identifies only one World War II fatal casualty with this family name. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |