| 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: | Between Wahleach Lake and Chilliwack River, E of Chilliwack, Yale Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°10'14"N, 121°36'41"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92H/4 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Welch Peak adopted 30 May 1946 on 92 H/4, as an established name in the mountaineering community (March 1944 advice from W.H. Matthews, Canadian Alpine Club, files M.2.40 and C.1.50). Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |
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Originally called "Mount Stewart" (in association with nearby Mount Foley [sic] and Mount Welch [sic]) by Arthur Williamson of Vancouver, superintendent of nearby Lucky Four Copper Mine, opened by Stewart and Welch in 1917. Note that the contracting firm of Foley, Welch & Stewart undertook construction of the Fraser Valley Section of Canadian Northern Pacific Railway (now C.N.R) in 1912-13. Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |
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... Foley, Wlech & Stewart was the largest railway construction company in North America prior to WW 1. It was created in 1908 as a reorganization of a prior company, Foley Bros & Larson. Principal partners in the new concern were John W. Stewart and his brothers-in-law Tim Foley and Patrick Welch. The company carried out most of the major railway projects in BC before the onset of the Great War... Source: Encyclopedia of British Columbia; Daniel Francis, ed; Harbour Publishing Ltd, 2000. ISBN 1-55017-200-X |