| Feature Type: | Range (2) - Group or chain of mountains or hills. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | SE of Rogers Pass in Glacier National Park, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°08'59"N, 117°26'04"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82N/3 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 8 September 1932 on 82/SW, as identified on maps since at least 1911, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"...the highest & central massif of the Dawson Range, comprising...." (A.O. Wheeler, "Guide to the Selkirk Mountains", 1911, p.58) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After geologist George Mercer Dawson (1849-1901), member of the British North America International Boundary Commission, 1873, director of the Geological Survey of Canada, 1895-1901. Dawson's comprehensive and detailed reports and maps about his surveys in British Columbia and the Yukon greatly expanded the available information about the natural landscape. [see Dawson Creek (city) and Dawson Harbour for additional biographical information.] Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |