[WHITE] PLACE-NAMES IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS 529 
Sheol; mountain, Bow river, Alta.; previously called ‘‘Devils Thumb’; name 
changed to avoid confusion with Devils Head and similar names. 
Sherbrooke; lake, Kicking Horse river, B.C.; after Sherbrooke, city, Que. 
*Sibbald; creek, Bow river, Alta.; after Frank Sibbald, a rancher. 
Siffleur; river and mountain, North Saskatchewan river, Alta.; after the siffleur, 
a whistling marmot. : 
Silverhorn; mount, North Saskatchewan river, Alta.; descriptive of its snow- 
covered summit. (Noyes) 
Simpson; river, Vermilion river, B.C. and pass, Alta. and B.C.; after Sir George 
Simpson (1792-1860), for many years Governor-in-Chief of Ruperts Land and 
head of the Hudson’s Bay Co. in Canada. (Hector) 
Sinclair; pass, Columbia river, B.C.; after James Sinclair. Blakiston says that, 
in 1858, he saw, near the confluence of the Kananaskis and Bow the “remains 
of many wooden carts which had been abandoned by a party of emigrants, 
under the late James Sinclair, on their way to the Columbia, in 1854.” 
(Dawson) 
Sinclair; post office and creek, Columbia river, B.C. 
Skoki; valley, Bow river, Alta.; Indian name signifying ‘‘marsh or swamp.”’ 
(Porter) 
Skoki; mountain, Bow river, Alta. 
Slate; mountains, Bow river, Alta.; from the slaty rock composing them. 
*Smet, Roche de; mountain, Athabaska river, Alta.; after the famous missionary, 
Father Pierre-Jean de Smet (1801-73); for many years, laboured among the 
Indians of the western and northwestern states. In 1845, he crossed the 
Rockies by way of Cross river and White Man pass; wintered at Edmonton 
and recrossed the mountains by the Athabaska pass in 1846. 
*Smith; creek, Brazeau river, Alta.; after one of the men employed when staking 
coal claims in this vicinity. 
*Snaring; river, Athabaska river, Alta.; ‘‘after a tribe of Indians that, at one time, 
lived here, dwelling in holes dug in the ground, and subsisting on animals which 
they captured with snares of green hide.” (Hector) 
Snow; creek, Red Deer river and peak, North Saskatchewan river, Alta.; descriptive. 
Sodalite; valley, Kicking Horse river, B.C.; after the mineral, sodalite, found 
there. (Whymper) 
Sofa; peaks, Oldman river, Alta.; descriptive of outline. 
Southesk; river, Brazeau river, Alta.; after James (Carnegie) 9th Earl of Southesk 
(1827-1905); in 1855, established claim to Earldom of Southesk, forfeited 
by 5th Earl for participation in rebellion of 1715; described travels in western 
Canada in Saskatchewan and Rocky Mountains. 
Southesk Cairn; mountain, Brazeau river, Alta. 
South Kootenay; pass, Alta. and B.C.; see Kootenay. 
South Saskatchewan; river, Alta. and Sask.; from Cree Indian name ‘‘kis-is- 
ska-tche-wan’’ meaning swift current. 
Sparwood; railway station, Elk river, B.C.; named by Canadian Pacific engin- 
eers; trees in vicinity were suitable for spars for vessels. 
Sparwood; range, Elk river, B.C. 
Spencer; range, Columbia river, B.C.; named by Collie after Sydney Spencer, Bath, 
Eng.; ‘‘an old climbing comrade of Stutfield’s’’; accompanied Stutfield and Collie 
on their Bush River trip, 1900. 
Spike; mountain, Kicking Horse river, B.C.; ‘looking up Otterhead creek, this 
peak is seen as a hugh spike rising in mid-air.” 
