| Feature Type: | Dome - Mass of rock or ice with a rounded top, elevated above the surrounding terrain. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Just W of summit of Mount Garibaldi, S of Whistler (municipality), New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°50'58"N, 123°00'34"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/14 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 5 November 1932 on 92G and 92J, as labelled on plan 8T264, "Topographic Survey of Garibaldi Park" by A.J. Campbell, BCLS, 1928. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after Arthur Tinniswood Dalton, one of the guides of the first party credited with first ascent of Mount Garibaldi, 1907. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Arthur Tinniswood Dalton (1883 - ), FRGS, Vancouver architect, city assessor and mountaineer. Member of first ascent party on Mount Garibaldi, also Mounts Albert, Alfred, Alexander, Victoria, Tinniswood, Wellington and George Edwards. Born at Winnipeg; came to Vancouver with his parents in 1889; 2 years at McGill; worked with his father, William Tinniswood Dalton, pioneer Vancouver architect; Port Grey building inspector c1922. Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |