[ WHITE] PLACE-NAMES IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS 507 
NotE—A few features in the foothills and north of the Athabaska river have 
been included. The names of such features are distinguished by an asterisk. For 
place-names in vicinity of the Athabaska river, see also Place Names in Vicinity of 
Yellowhead Pass, by James White, in The Canadian Alpine Journal, 1914-1915. 
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Abbot; pass, Bow river, Alta. and B.C.; after Philip Stanley Abbot, member 
of the Appalachian Mountain Club, Boston, who met his death on the steeps 
of mount Lefroy, 1896. 
Aberdeen; mountain, Bow river, Alta.; after the Marquess of Aberdeen and 
Temair, Governor General of Canada, 1893-98. 
Agnes; lake, Bow river, Alta.; after Susan Agnes, Baroness Macdonald of Earns- 
cliffe, who visited the locality in 1886. 
Agnew; creek, Kootenay river, B.C.; after J. M. Agnew, owner of land traversed 
by the creek. 
Akamina; pass, Alta. and B.C., and brook, Waterton river, Alta.; Indian name 
meaning ‘‘high bench land,’ referring to the benches near summit of South 
Kootenay pass. 
“Alberta; province; after H.R.H. Princess Louise (Louise Caroline Alberta), b. 
1848; m., 1871, Duke of Argyll (then Marquis of Lorne). Alberta was created a 
provisional district, 1882; erected into a province, 1905; the Marquis of Lorne, 
Governor General, 1878-83, wrote the following: 
‘ In token of the love which thou has shown 
For this wide land of freedom, I have named 
A province vast, and for its beauty famed, 
By thy dear name to be hereafter known.” 
(Alberta; mount, Athabaska river, Alta. and B.C. (Stutfield and Collie) ¢ 
Alderson; mount, Oldman river, Alta.; after Maj. Gen. Alderson, commanding 
the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France, 1915-16. 
Aldridge; creek, Elk river, B.C.; after W. H. Aldridge, M. E., general manager of the 
Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co., Trail; had charge of development of 
coal in vicinity for Canadian Pacific Ry. 
Alexander; creek, Michel creek, B.C.; after J.S.T. Alexander, lateGovernment Agent, 
Fernie, B.C. 
Alexandra; mount, Columbia river, B.C. and Alta.; after Queen Alexandra. (Stut- 
field and Collie) 
Alice; lake, Bow river, Alta.; named by Rev. H. P. Nichols after his wife, since 
deceased. 
Allison; mount and creek, Crowsnest river, Alta.; after late Douglas Allison, 
formerly in the Mounted Police; settled on this creek. 
Amiskwi; peak, river, pass and falls, Kicking Horse river, B.C.; Cree Indian for 
“‘beaver.”’ 
Anderson; mount, Waterton river, Oldman river, Alta.; after Major S. Anderson, 
R.E., Chief Astronomer of the second Boundary Commission (49th parallel) 
and also a member of the first Boundary Commission. 
Andygood; creek, Michel creek, Elk river, B.C.; after late Andrew Good, hotel 
proprietor. 
t*Bracketing the names indicates that the name was originally applied to the first name only 
and that, later, it has been applied to the other features. 
ÏTo avoid repetition of * named by,’ the name of the person who named the feature is, in many 
{nstances, inserted in brackets at the end of the description. 
