Mount Girard
| 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 Klinaklini Glacier, NW of head of Knight Inlet, Range 2 Coast Land District |
| Tags: | World War II |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°35'29"N, 126°06'43"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 Canadian Army Rifleman Marcel Max Cubitt Girard, K3124, enlisted at New Westminster. Serving with Royal Winnipeg Rifles, RCIC, at the Battle of the Rhineland when he was killed in action 16 February 1945, age 28. Buried at Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, Netherlands, grave XXV, C, 16. Survived by wife Annie P. Girard, and parents Max and Edith Girard, all of Vancouver. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |