| Feature Type: | Pass (2) - Low opening in a mountain range or hills, offering a route from one side to the other. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | On BC-Alberta boundary, at NE corner of Elk Lakes Provincial Park E of Invermere, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°34'56"N, 115°03'52"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82J/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 14 September 1966 as labelled on BC Lands' map 1EM, 1915, and on BC-Alberta boundary sheet 9, 1916, and on numerous subsequent maps. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"...in reality [this] is a twin pass..." (BC-Alberta Boundary Report, Part I, p 116); labelled East Passage and West Passage with the collective label "Elk Pass" on BC-Alberta Boundary sheet 9. [since adopted as East Elk Pass and West Elk Pass on modern maps] See also 11 April 1925 letter, file A.1.24; also Boundary Report, ibid, pp.114-115,118-119,125-126,131. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Elk Pass (not West Elk, East Elk, nor Tobermory )" identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Origin/significance of "Tobermory" not recorded. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |