| Feature Type: | Peak (2) - Summit of a mountain or hill, or the mountain or hill itself. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | E side Nicolum Creek between Eight Mile and Eleven Mile Creeks, just SE of Hope, Yale Division Yale Land District |
| Tags: | World War II |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°19'42"N, 121°12'46"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92H/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 7 April 1955 on 92H/SW. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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This feature is labelled "Manson Mtn" on Geological Survey of Canada publication #1897, Coquihalla River Area, 1923; the name "Manson Ridge" was subsequently extended to the entire upland between Nicolum and Sowaqua Creeks, Coquihalla River and Snass Creek. 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 Alexander Harvey Macleod, SJ92113, from Sardis; killed in action during air operations over Europe 15 October 1944, age 22. With no known grave his name is inscribed on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, UK, panel 251. Survived by parents William Ray MacLeod and Beulah Rossland MacLeod, Cultus Lake, BC. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |