Mount Armstrong
| 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: | On BC-Alberta boundary near head of Fording River, N of Elkford, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°21'00"N, 114°46'04"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82J/7 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in the 16th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1919, as labelled on BC -Alberta boundary sheet #7, surveyed in 1916, published in 1917. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in 1916 by interprovincial boundary surveyors, after John Douglas Armstrong of the surveyor general's staff, Ottawa; serving as a Lieutenant with 11th Field Company, Canadian Engineers, when he was killed in action 9 April 1917, age 28. Lieut. Armstrong is buried at Villers Station Cemetery, Villers-au-Bois, Pas de Calais, France; grave VII. J. 35. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |