Mount Macpherson
| 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: | Just SW of Revelstoke, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°55'54"N, 118°17'16"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/16 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted by Order-in-Council 551, 4 April 1887. "Mount Macpherson (not McPherson)" re-approved in the 6th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 30 June 1906. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after Sir David Macpherson (1818-1896), who had served as Canada's Minister of Interior, 1883-85. One of five names adopted by OIC in 1887, which document stated that the features were named after "persons intimately connected with the inception and execution of the great national highway." [ie. railway]. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |