Feature Type: | Peak (2) - Summit of a mountain or hill, or the mountain or hill itself. |
Status: |
Official
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Name Authority: |
BC Geographical Names Office |
Relative Location: |
S of junction of Albert Creek and Illecillewaet River, just E of Mount Revelstoke National Park, Kootenay Land District |
Latitude-Longitude: |
51°02'16"N, 117°51'02"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
Datum: |
WGS84 |
NTS Map: |
82N/4 |
Origin Notes and History:
Adopted 30 June 1906. Also Albert Canyon, Creek, Glacier.
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office
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On Mount Revelstoke Park sheet, and map of Rocky & Selkirk Mountains, Albert Peak and North Albert Peak are collectively identified as "Albert Peaks"
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office
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Named after Albert L. Rogers, nephew of Major A.B. Rogers (namesake of Rogers Pass), who assisted his uncle in exploring the CPR route 1881-82. (The Selkirk Range, Vol.1, by A.O. Wheeler, 1905, p.419). Albert Rogers died at Waterville, Washington 16 May 1929; obituary in Victoria Colonist 18 May 1929, p.1.
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office
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