Pert Peak, NW of Barn Mountain
Pert Peak is another of the “steamboat mountains”, named after a vessel that was, itself, known by a number of names.
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Galena
Galena School Road (Spillimacheen), Galena Street (Windermere), Galena (community, historical)
Galena was a long-standing way point in the Windermere Valley, existing from about 1889, until it was abruptly replaced by Spillimacheen in 1946.
Klahowya
Klahowya Mountain, southeast of Mount Findlay
Klahowya (kla’-how-ya): standard greeting in the Chinook jargon at meeting or parting, “How do you do? Good-bye.”
Sultana
Sultana Creek, Sultana Peak
Previous Names: Michelsen/Michelson Creek
Sultana Creek gets its name from Sultana Peak, which was itself named after a short-lived group of mining claims, known as the Sultana Group, located in the early 1900s.
Lead Queen
Lead Queen Mountain (Septet Range)
Extensive development work gave the Lead Queen a reputation for being, “unquestionably one of the best developed properties in the Division.”17
Purcell
Purcell Mountains
Over sixty years after Purcell’s Range was first labeled on a map it had unexpectedly transformed into one of the major mountain ranges in British Columbia. Unfortunately, by the time this change occurred, it had become very difficult to determine where its name had come from.
Mitchell
Mitchell Range
The Mitchell Range straddles part of Kootenay National Park to the east of Kootenay River. It is the range with the “Heart of the Rockies.”
Brisco
Brisco (Community), Brisco Creek, Brisco Range
It seems that Captain Arthur Brisco, in searching for adventure in western British North America, was also in the right place at the right time to have a mountain range named after him.
Sabine
Mount Sabine (Canal Flats)
Sabine was “the artful dodger of the British scientific establishment. Bright, energetic, shrewd, he could have been the very model of Gilbert and Sullivan’s modern major general.”23
Palliser
Palliser River, Palliser Pass
Palliser would likely have been just one more wealthy nineteenth century British man if not for his involvement in the Expedition through what is now western Canada that is colloquially named after him.
In The Windermere 