| 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: | N side of junction of Sheslay and Hackett Rivers, NW of Telegraph Creek (community), Cassiar Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 58°17'18"N, 131°45'39"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 104J/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Egnell Hill (not Egnelle nor Egnelle's) identified in the 1st Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 1898. Form of name changed to Egnell Mountain in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924. Form of name changed to Mount Egnell, 14 August 1952 on 104 J. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Spelled "Egnelle Hill" on 1898 Geological map 77T3 [which might have been a mis-interpretation or typographical error for "Egnells" - the colloquial reference to the nearby cabin & trading post run by A.Egnell.] Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Albert Egnell, the clerk put in charge when the Hudson's Bay Company established a trading post nearby. Egnell was mining in the area in the 1880s, probably when the creek and mountain were first named; at some point he worked for HBC at Lower Post. In the 1892 and 1894 BC Directories, A. Egnell is listed as a fur trader, Liard Post. [See Egnell (settlement) for additional biographical information.] Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |