Mount Frink

Adopted 9 November 1978 on 92F/11, as submitted in 1972 by Ruth Masters, Comox District Mountaineering Club.

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

"...during the summer of 1934 when they were first surveying the Plateau a university student from the States by name of Paul Henka (sp?)
asked the surveyors if they would name this piece of real estate...after his current girl friend, Miss Frink, a resident of Los Angeles. Paul's father was the Belgian consul, stationed in Victoria at that time." (Information received 1 February 1973 from Mr. L. Avent, Courtenay, a guide on Forbidden Plateau at the time the event occurred, file B.1.38)

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

"...named by a young tourist in honour of his girl friend." (the first submission to adopt this name, a September 1935 letter from R. Idiens, then-president of the Comox District Mountaineering Club, file F.2.34). Interestingly, the Club apparently had no concerns about this type of self-interested or subjective naming.

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

"...surveyors up there wanted a name for it, and a young lady in a mountaineering party requested that it be named for her fiancé, Frink." (7 November 1972 letter from Ruth Masters, Secretary, Comox District Mountaineering Club, file B.1.38)

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