Chushina Ridge
| Feature Type: | Ridge (2) - Elongated stretch of elevated ground. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | On BC-Alberta boundary, E of Berg Lake at NE end of Mount Robson Provincial Park, Cariboo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 53°08'07"N, 119°02'54"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 83E/3 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 6 May 1924 on Jasper Park (north) sheet. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Chushina is a Stoney Indian word signifying "small" and was thought to be descriptive of this ridge when members of a joint Alpine Club of Canada - Smithsonian Institute expedition to Mount Robson named this feature in 1912. Source: Place Names of Alberta, Alberta Geographical Names Program and Friends of Geographical Names of Alberta Society, University of Calgary Press, 4 volumes, 1991-1996. |