Chikamin Mountain adopted 7 March 1922 as an established local name, submitted October 1921 by F.C. Swannell, BCLS, and labelled on his Sketch Map of the River and Lake System (Ottawa file OBF 0662);

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Origintes from the Chinook Jargon word for "money" and the collective word for "iron and other metals".

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"Chikamon [sic] is the local name. In 1910 [Indigenous] Chief Louis of Cheslatta Lake told me of this mountain and later that year I visited it. Mineral claims have been worked on it, and there is a cairn [built by] Triangulation Survey....the most remarkable peak in the whole region." (1921 notation on BC name card, by F.C. Swannell, BCLS.)

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Spelled "Chikamon" on Swannell's 1921 Sketch map of the River and Lake System. "I spelled with an 'o' because it represents the sound of the last vowell in Chinook words quite as closely as 'i' (the Cheslatta, at least, slur the sound). Also "The Chicamon Stone" by Clive Philllips Wooley. Major Nation & I have hunted up all the Chinook Vocabularies available and find the following spellings: Chikamin, Chik'min, chick-a-min, Tsikamen - evidently the Coast pronunciation gives the 'i' sound. The spelling "Chikamin" should be adopted." (23 January 1922 letter from Frank Swannell to BC Chief Geographer, file 34275s #2)

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