Augustine Peak
Feature Type:Peak (2) - Summit of a mountain or hill, or the mountain or hill itself.
Status: Official
Name Authority: BC Geographical Names Office
Relative Location: In The Bishops Range, SE of head of Incomappleux River in Glacier National Park, Kootenay Land District
Latitude-Longitude: 51°07'46"N, 117°24'59"W at the approximate centre of this feature.
Datum: WGS84
NTS Map: 82N/3
Origin Notes and History:

Adopted by the Geographic Board of Canada in 1917, as labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

"Letters from Mr. A.O. Wheeler, 1904, are on file stating definitely that he had called the two highest peaks forming the mitre of the Bishops Range, "Augustine Peak" after the famous old Bishop of that name, and "Cyprian Peak" after the celebrated Bishop of Carthage". (letter 18 March 1918 from Geographic Board to J.N.Wallace)

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

Saint Augustine: Augustine Dontenwill (354-430), Bishop of Hippo (an area now in Algeria). "The greatest of the Latin Fathers of the Church, born in Tagaste, Numidia (modern Algeria). His father was a pagan, but he was brought up a Christian by his devout mother, Monica. He went to Carthage to study, and had a son (Adeonatus) by a mistress there. He became deeply involved in Manicheanism, which seemed to offer a solution to the problem of evil, a theme which was to preoccupy him throughout his life. In 383 he moved to teach at Rome, then at Milan, and became influenced by Scepticism and then by Neoplatonism. After the dramatic spiritual crises described in his autobiography, he finally became converted to Christianity and was baptized (together with his son) by St Ambrose in 386. He returned to North Africa and became Bishop of Hippo in 396, where he was a relentless antagonist of the heretical schools of Donatists, Pelagians, and Manicheans. The Confessions (400 AD) is a classic of world literature and a spiritual autobiography, as well as an original work of philosophy. The City of God (412-27 AD) is a work of 22 books presenting human history in terms of the conflict between the spiritual and the temporal. Feast day 28 August." (from www.biography.com)

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office