Mount Klauer
| 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 NW of Fernie, Kootenay Land District |
| Tags: | World War II |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°36'27"N, 115°09'53"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82G/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 27 July 1964 on 82G/NW-NE. 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 Flight Sergeant Aloysius William ("Bill") Klauer, R149019, from Fernie. Serving as an air gunner when he died 4 May 1943, age 29 (circumstances not cited). Buried at Stratford-on-Avon Cemetery, UK, grave 4147. Survived by his wife Marie Klauer, and his parents Sarah Josephine Ryan Klauer and Adam Aloysius Klauer, all of Fernie. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |