Mount Guichon
| 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 side of Mamit Lake, N of Merritt, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°22'03"N, 120°40'35"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92I/7 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 7 April 1949 on 92I/SE, as labelled on BC map 4M, 1927. Also Guichon Creek. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Joseph and Pierre Guichon, "Old Country French," not French-Canadians, who settled in the district in 1873. Joseph Guichon later founded the Guichon Cattle Co. Ltd. at Quilchena, and became one of British Columbia's cattle kings. Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; 1001 British Columbia Place Names; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973. |