| 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: | NE of junction of Meager Creek and Lillooet River, NW of Pemberton, Lillooet Land District |
| Tags: | World War I |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°39'31"N, 123°18'07"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92J/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 11 November 1998 on 92J/11. 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 Canadian Army Medical Corp Nursing Sister Gladys Maude Mary Wake, of Esquimalt, who died 21 May 1918 of wounds received 2 days earlier during the air raid on the Canadian General Hospital at Etaples, France. Gladys Wake was born 13 December 1883 at Esquimalt, graduated from Victoria's Jubilee Hospital School of Nursing in 1912, and volunteered with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1916. She was posted to the Duchess of Connaught Canadian Red Cross Hospital at Taplow, then to the Canadian General Hospital at Salonica, Greece, before being taken on strength 12 May 1918 at the Canadian General Hospital at Etaples. Nursing Sister Wake is buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery, France, grave 5, row L, plot XXVII. There is also a tablet to her memory in St. Paul's Church, Esquimalt. (information & photographs provided by Esquimalt historian Sherri Robinson, also Daily Colonist obituary, 30 May 1918, p.7, on file S.1.76) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"During a two-hour raid in the late evening of May 19 [1918], buildings of the No. 1 Canadian General Hospital were levelled or set on fire. A total of 66 were killed and 73 others were wounded.... most of the victims being members of the hospital staff. Among those killed outright or who later succumbed to their injuries were three Canadian nursing sisters and one medical officer." and: "...almost a quarter of the 1156 patients in the [Canadian General Hospital at Etaples, France] were suffering from fractured femurs. Anchored to their beds by immovable apparatus, the patients were dreadfully concious that the galvanized roof was no protection against falling bombs. To ease this terrible strain, doctors and nurses remained in the wards, leading the patients in singing hymns and songs while the raid lasted." (from Seventy Years of Service, by G.W.I. Nicholson, p.105, 106). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |