Adopted 7 October 1948 on 92F/11, as originally submitted in 1935 by Comox Mountaineering Club (file F.2.34).
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office
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Named (by Ruth Masters/Comox & District Mountaineering Club?) for Elizabeth Mary "Elma" Pearse, wife of Theed Pearse, mayor of Courtenay 1928-29. In 1930, Clinton Wood led Elma's party into this area and she evidently rode her horse to the top of this mountain! [Elma was the daughter of Sir Robert Llewelyn, governor of Granada; she married Theed Pearse in 1919 and remained in Courtenay until her death in 1969.]
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office
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