| 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: | Just S of Salmon Arm (municipality), Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°38'20"N, 119°19'07"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in the 11th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 30 June 1912, as labelled on G.M. Dawson's 1877 "Map of the Southern Interior" published by Canadian Geological Survey. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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Named in 1877 by G.M. Dawson (Preliminary Report on the Physical and Geological Features of the Southern Portion of the Interior of British Columbia, 1877, by George M. Dawson; published in GSC Annual Report 1877-78, Sec IV, p.23B). Significance of the name not cited. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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I examined the Mount Ida group of claims on September 18th; it is located at an elevation of about 1,000 feet above Shuswap lake, on the side of Mount Ida, about five miles south-east from the town of Salmon Arm. The apex of Mount Ida has an altitude of 5,200 feet and is reached by wagon-road to the base of the mountain, and thence by good horse-trail. The group composes the Everglade, Excelsior, Leah Rose, Alida and Eva mineral claims, owned by the Mount Ida Mining and Development Company of Salmon Arm, of which Alex Miller, of the same place, is president and general manager.... (1913 BC Mines Report, p.198) Source: included with note |