Mount Stockdale
| Feature Type: | Mount - Variation of Mountain: Mass of land prominently elevated above the surrounding terrain, bounded by steep slopes and rising to a summit and/or peaks. ["Mount" preceding the name usually indicates that the feature is named after a person.] |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | S side of upper Horsethief Creek, W of Invermere, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°32'42"N, 116°34'46"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82K/10 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in the 15th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1917. Also Stockdale Creek. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Refers to F.C. Stockdale who came west in 1898 with his cousin, James Stewart Johnson, for the Klondike Gold Rush; discouraged by the distances and hardships encountered, Stockdale settled near Copper City (since renamed Invermere) with another cousin, Edmund T. Johnson, and took up prospecting and ranching in the valley. Identified as owner of the Iron King mineral claim in BC Mines Report, 1915, p. K97. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |