Mount Haffner
| Language of origin | English language |
| 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 Vermillion Pass, N end Kootenay National Park, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°08'51"N, 116°05'11"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82N/1 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 6 December 1921 by the Geographic Board of Canada; confirmed in the 18th Report, 31 March 1924. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Lieutenant Harry John Alexander Haffner, who had made the first surveys of the Banff-Windermere Motor Road (date not cited). He went overseas with the 8th Field Company of the Canadian Engineers in the spring on 1915, and died of wounds received on the battlefield 30 May 1916, age 35; buried at Brandhoek Military Cemetery, Ieper, Belgium, grave I. J. 9A. Survived by his father, John Haffner, Winnipeg. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |