| 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: | E of head of Knight Inlet, SE of Devereux Lake, Range 2 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°07'34"N, 125°29'13"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92N/3 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Mount Devereux was adopted 3 April 1928 on Ottawa file OBF 1018, as submitted by Hydrographic Service. Name changed to Mount Lowe 6 July 1950 on 92NW, the earlier name for this feature, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 581, 1867 et seq. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named c1865 by Captain Richards, RN, likely referring to Thomas Lowe (1824- ), HBC trader at Taku in 1842, then at Fort McLoughlin (Bella Bella) before arriving with James Douglas in what is now Victoria Harbour on 3 June 1843, to establish a new HBC post. Thomas was a merchant in San Francisco throughout the 1850s, returning to Victoria in December 1862 to establish Lowe Bros., with his brother. Or possibly after Thomas' brother, James Lowe (1830-1879) six years with the Bank of Dundee, Scotland, before joining his brother in 1853 in San Francisco, thence to Victoria in 1862.... Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |