In July 1925, Walter Alfred Don Munday [1890–1950] and Phyllis Munday [1894–1990] made an expedition into the Cariboo Range.

Two parties of climbers had preceded them: Edward Willet Dorland Holway [1853–1923] andAndrew James Gilmour [1871–1941] in 1916;and Allen Carpé [1894–1932] and Rollin Thomas Chamberlin [1881–1948] in 1924.

The latter party made two major climbs, the first ascents of Mt. Titan (11,850 ft.) and Mt. Challenger (10,900 ft.). They also climbed three minor mountains: Gunboat (10,000 ft.); a shoulder of Mt. Titan which they called Bivouac Peak (10,150 ft.) and a triple summit (10,250 ft.), which Mr. Munday refers to as Holway’s Peak, he having made the first ascent of its northerly summit. (The elevation and other names are Mr. Carpé’s.)

— Munday

Mt. Thompson on the Canoe River near Cranberry Lake. Benjamin F. Baltzly, 1871
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Because of the relative proximity of Canoe Mountain and Mount Thompson at the head of the Canoe River, this name likely refers to explorer David Thompson [1770–1857], who overwintered at the mouth of the Canoe at Boat Encampment in 1811, before beginning his journey down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean.

In the reports of Ray Zillmer [1887–1960] on the exploration of the source of the North Thompson River, the “Thompson” mentioned is Sir John Thompson, Canada’s fifth Prime Minister (the name “Mount Sir John Thompson”, about 40 km northwest of here, was adopted in September 1927).

Terry Fox in Toronto during his Marathon of Hope cross-country run (July 1980)
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Terrence Stanley Fox [1958-81], a native of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, set out in 1980 on a cross-country run to raise money for cancer research. Fox had lost his right leg to cancer in 1977.

At Thunder Bay, after running over 3,300 miles, Fox was forced to stop his “Marathon of Hope,” to which Canadians contributed $22 million. In 1980, Fox became the youngest companion of the Order of Canada.

When the Province of British Columbia made this mountain a memorial to Terry Fox, at 2651 metres in altitude it was the highest unnamed peak in B.C. within sight of a public highway. The dedication ceremony in September 1981 was attended by B.C. premier Bill Bennett.

Named in 1884 by George Mercer Dawson after Sir Richard Temple, president of a section of the British Association. In the year that the mountain was named, Temple was elected leader of the British Association party to the Rockies.

Peter Talbot. Appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1906, served during the premierships of Wilfred Laurier and Robert Borden until he died in 1919
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The mountain was named by the Geodetic Survey in 1923, during the survey of the interprovincial boundary, after Hon. Peter Talbot [1854-1919], Lacombe; Member of Senate of Canada, 1906-19.

(Not named after British travel author Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot [1880–1924], who traversed the Yellowhead Pass in 1910, one year ahead of the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.)

The Right Honourable The Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG PC PC (Can) JP FRS. Portrait by Walter Stoneman, 1920
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Known from 1924 as Mount Challenger, this peak was renamed in the 1927 Premier Range proclimation.

Stanley Baldwin [1867-1947] was prime minister of Great Britian for six months in 1923, again from 1924 until 1929, and again from 1935 until 1937. Until he was in his forties, Baldwin was employed in his father’s businesses, including railways, iron and steel manufacturing, and coal mining. When the elder Baldwin died in 1908, Stanley succeeded to his father’s parliamentary seat.

Bowell in 1891
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This Premier Range peak is named for Mackenzie Bowell (1823-1917), who was prime minister of Canada from 1894 to 1896.

Bowell was born in Suffolk, England, and came to Upper Canada with his parents in 1833. Elected to the House of Commons as a Conservative in 1867, he acted as spokesman for the Orange Order, of which he was grand master. He was minister of customs in Sir John A. Macdonald’s cabinet in 1878-9, minister of militia in the ministry of Sir John Abbott in 1891-2, and then minister of trade and commerce under Sir John Thompson.

He became prime minister on Thompson’s death in 1894. In 1896, seven of his ministers resigned over his handling of the Manitoba school crisis. Bowell saved face by turning power over to Charles Tupper, High Commissioner to Great Britian. Bowell resigned a few months later. He was appointed to the senate in 1892.

John Sparrow David Thompson

Originally named “Mount David Thompson” by the
climbing party of Allen Carpé [1894–1932] and Rollin Thomas Chamberlin [1881–1948] in 1924, in the mistaken belief that the nearby pass was the true source of the North Thompson River (see W. A. D. Munday’s explanation and sketch map). The mountain was subsequently renamed in the Premier Range commemorations, going from one Thompson to another. Carpé’s other 1924 names, David Pass and David Glacier, were retained.

John Sparrow David Thompson (1844-94) became prime minister of Canada upon John Abbot’s resignation in 1892. Born in Halifax, John Thompson was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1877, became attorney general in 1878, and premier in 1882. After an election defeat, he was made a judge of the Supreme Court of the province. John A. Macdonald induced him to enter the federal cabinet as minister of justice in 1885. In 1893 Thompson went to Europe on business, and while dining with Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle, was taken ill and died.

Walter Alfred Don Munday [1890–1950] and Phyllis Munday made the first ascent of the mountain in 1925, approaching from Tête Creek.

Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, the third Prime Minister of Canada. 1892
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This peak of the Premier Range, formerly known as Kiwa Peak, was named in 1927 for John Joseph Caldwell Abbott [1821–1893], who became prime minister of Canada on the death of Sir John A. Macdonald in 1891. Abbot’s health was poor and he resigned in 1892.

Abbott was born in St. Andrews, Lower Canada, and was educated in law at McGill College. Elected to the House of Assembly in 1857, he was appointed solicitor general in 1862. He lost his seat in the Pacific scandal of 1873, which brought down Macdonald and the Conservatives on charges of having taken election funds from promoters who were seeking the Canadian Pacific Railway charter. Re-elected in 1880, Abbott was appointed to the Senate in 1887.