| 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 heads of Kilippi and Klinaklini Glaciers, E of Rivers Inlet (community), Range 2 Coast Land District |
| Tags: | World War II |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°34'14"N, 126°02'56"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 RCAF Pilot Officer Francis ("Frank") Wilfred Dolter, J19999, from New Westminster. Dolter was flying Halifax bombers and had made 12 successful runs over Germany; he and his crew failed to return from air operations at Auchen on the German-Belgium border, 25 May 1944. With no known grave, his name is inscribed on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, UK, panel 250. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Mounts Bradshaw and Fitzgerald, about 4 miles south of here, were named in memory of Frank Dolter's childhood friends and schoolmates at South Burnaby High School: Canadian Merchant Navy Cadet Arthur Ronald Bradshaw, and RCAF Flight Sergeant John ("Jack") Fitzgerald, DFM, both also killed in action in WW II. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |