Mount Laussedat
| 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: | NW of junction of Split Creek and Blaeberry River, N of Golden, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°34'19"N, 116°57'19"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82N/10 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Decision in 18th Report. Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |
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A.O. Wheeler suggested that the name Mount Laussedat be given to a mountain situated on the north side of Blaeberry River, which had not yet received any name: "....Colonel Laussedat is the man who inaugurated photographic surveying in the 1850s, and he has always shown great interest in the work done in the Rocky Mountains..." Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"After Colonel Aimé Laussedat (1819-1907), the Frenchman who in 1849 first applied photography to surveying." Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; 1001 British Columbia Place Names; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973. |