| 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 upper Fitzsimmons Creek, SE of Whistler in Garibaldi Provincial Park, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°03'34"N, 122°50'23"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92J/2 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Trorey Mountain adopted 2 September 1930, as recommended by Garibaldi Park Board (file G.1.30). Form of name changed to Mount Trorey 31 December 1966. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after J.J. Trorey, a member of the first party to ascend Mount Garibaldi, 11 August 1907. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"...after J.J. Trorey, a founding member of the Vancouver Mountaineering Club (now known as the B.C. Mountaineering Club). Trorey was given credit for forming the original BCMC in 1907, as quoted by B.F. Dickens in a June 1937 conversation with Vancouver City Archivist J.S. Mathews. (from Fred Mills memoirs, and notes from B.F. Dickens, compiled by Mills' grandson David Grantham, and provided May 2006) Source: included with note |