Proposed name for Extinguisher Tower
53.1167 N 119.0875 W Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1912 (Walcott)
Not currently an official name.
Billings Butte – Robson Peak – Iyatunga Mountain. Panonamic view of the Robson massif and adjoining mountains, with the great Hunga glacier in the foreground.
Photo: Charles D. Walcott, 1912 National Geographic Magazine 1913 [accessed 15 February 2025]
One of the names proposed by Dr. Coleman for a prominent monadnock that is surrounded by ice, east of Mount Robson, is ‘ The Extinguisher ‘ and Mr. Wheeler has adopted the name on his map. I presume Dr. Coleman had in mind the conical extinguisher used in putting out candles in the olden times. It so happens that that particular mass of rock carries a very important bed of Cambro-Ordovician fossils, and will be referred to many times in the future in literature. The name “Billings” is proposed for this butte in honor of E. Billings, the distinguished Canadian paleontologist, who described the famous Cambro-Ordovician fauna of Point Lévis, Province of Quebec, and Western Newfoundland.
His proposal was not accepted by the Geographical Board of Canada.
- Arthur Philemon Coleman [1852–1939]
- Extinguisher Tower
- Arthur Oliver Wheeler [1860–1945]
- Wheeler’s map Mount Robson 1912
- Walcott, Charles Doolittle [1850–1927]. “The Monarch of the Canadian Rockies.” National Geographic Magazine, (1913):626. Internet Archive [accessed 2 April 2025]
- Walcott, Charles Doolittle [1850–1927]. “Cambrian Formations of the Robson Peak District, British Columbia and Alberta, Canada.” Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 57, No. 12 (1913):328-343. Smithsonian Institution Archives [accessed 11 April 2025]