Columnar Peak

Feature Type:Mountain - Mass of land prominently elevated above the surrounding terrain, bounded by steep slopes and rising to a summit and/or peaks.
Status:
Name Authority: BC Geographical Names Office
Relative Location: SW of Mamquam Lake at SW end of Garibaldi Provincial Park, NE of Squamish, New Westminster Land District
Latitude-Longitude: 49°48'01''N, 123°00'19''W at the approximate centre of this feature.
Datum: NAD83
NTS Map: 92G/14

Origin Notes and History:

Adopted 12 September 1972 on 92G/NW, as mentioned in July 1946 correspondence from W.H. Mathews, Vancouver City Archivist (file V.2.50), and as identified in "Geology of Mt. Garibaldi area", Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, vol 69, 1958, pp.161-198.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office