| Feature Type: | Peak (2) - Summit of a mountain or hill, or the mountain or hill itself. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | NW of Mamquam Mountain on W side of Mamquam Icefield, at SW end of Garibaldi Provincial Park, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°47'12"N, 122°52'44"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/15 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 2 September 1930 on Garibaldi Park Map (Ottawa file OBF 1256). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named by Garibaldi Park Board, after Basil S. Darling, a pioneering climber in the area. See Darling's article "Winter Mountaineering at the Coast" and his photographs of The Lions in Canadian Alpine Journal vol II, 1910, p.198. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Name missing on federal 1:50,000 map 92G/15, ed 1 & 2. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named c1928 after Basil S. Darling, Victoria; retired Bank of Montreal accountant and alpinist. Born at Toronto 1885; came to Vancouver 1908; a pioneer alpinist in the Vancouver and Hose Sound regions; relocated to Toronto 1916; relocated to Victoria 1926. Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |