| 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: | E side of Wellbore Channel below Forward Harbour, NE of Saywatd (municipality), Range 1 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°27'54"N, 125°43'54"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92K/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Mount Lascelles adopted 3 December 1946 on C.3587, not "Lascelles Mountain" as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 581, 1867 et seq. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"...The names in Forward Harbour were all given [by Captain Pender in 1865] in association with Lieutenant Hon. Horace Douglas Lascelles, commander of the gunboat Forward... Horace Point, Douglas Bay and Lascelles Mountain [sic] after the commander of the Forward; Mount Harewood after his father; Thynne Peninsula after his mother; Mount Egremont after his brother; Wharncliffe Range after his sister; and the northern point of entrance, with four points in the harbour, after his four sisters - Louisa, Lady Hillingdon; Maude, Lady George Hamilton; Blanche, Viscountess Boyle; Florence and Cust, after Lady Florence Cust, wife of Lieutenant Colonel John F. Cust..." (see Walbran for additional information about the gunboats Forward and Grappler, and their long commissions on this coast.) Source: Walbran, John T; British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: their origin and history; Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971) |