Adopted 1921, as labelled on BC-Alberta boundary sheet 26, 1920.
Edgar Evans in 1911
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Named for Edgar Evans [[1876-1912], a Royal Navy petty officer and member of the “Polar Party” in Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in 1911–1912. A group of five men attained the Pole on 17 January 1912. Evans was the first to die on the return; he had accidentally cut his hand and the wound would not heal. The rest of the party subsequently also perished.
Three mountains in the Whirlpool River valley were named in 1913 to commemorate men lost in the expedition. See Mount Scott.
Name suggested by Alberta-British Columbia Boundary Commission surveyors in 1920, being the latin word for alder, thick groves of which abound on the mountain sides.
Paul Kane
Self-portrait, 1846-1848
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Named for artist Paul Kane [1810–1871] by the Alberta-British Columbia Boundary Commission.
In reference to Mount Kane.
Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates during the British Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1913, ca 1911
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Lawrence Edward Grace “Titus” Oates [1880 – 1912] was a British army officer, and later an Antarctic explorer, who died from hypothermia during Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in 1911–1912. Oates walked from his tent into a blizzard on his 32nd birthday, in what is seen as an act of self-sacrifice. Oates was suffering from gangrene and frostbite, compromising his three companions’ chances of survival. According to the diary of Commander Robert Falcon Scott, CVO, [1868–1912], as Oates left the tent he said, “I am just going outside and may be some time.” The three other members of the party also perished over the next few days; Edgar Evans [1876-1912] had died previously.
Three mountains in the Whirlpool River valley were named in 1913 to commemorate men lost in the expedition. See Mount Scott.
See Mount Hooker.
