| 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 S of Single Hill in Metchosin (municipality), SW of Victoria, Metchosin Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°23'12"N, 123°34'11"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92B/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Mount Blinkhorn adopted 2 May 1911, as a long-established local name. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Mis-spelled "Mt. Blinckhorn" on J.D. Pembertopn's 1855 map of South Eastern Districts of Vancouver Island; corrected on subsequent editions. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Named for the first settler who lived in this vicinity, 15 miles from Victoria" (1930 BC Gazetteer). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"....after Thomas Blinkhorn, JP, and his wife, Anne, who with Mrs Blinkhorn's niece (Miss Martha Beeton Cheney) had come out from England to Vancouver Island in the barque Tory, in 1851, as free and independent settlers (ie. not servants of the Hudson's Bay Company). Upon arrival, Mr. Blinkhorn took charge of a farm at Metchosin...." Source: Walbran, John T; British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: their origin and history; Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971) |