Mount Currie (British Columbia)

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Mount Currie
Elevation 2,591 metres (8,501 ft)[1]
Location British Columbia, Flag of Canada Canada
Range Garibaldi Ranges
Prominence 346 m (1,135 ft)[1]
Coordinates 50°14′54″N 122°46′55″W / 50.24833, -122.78194[1]
Topo map NTS 92J/02
First ascent 1922[1]

Mount Currie, known as T'zil in the St'at'imcets (Lillooet) language, is the northernmost summit of the Garibaldi Ranges in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Its north face dominates the "skyline" of the Pemberton Valley and is one of the peaks visible from the Whistler-Blackcomb Ski Area just southwest. Mount Currie is the namesake of Mount Currie, British Columbia and the adjoining Mount Currie Indian Reserve.

The mountain was named for John Currie, the first permanent non-indigenous settler in the Pemberton Valley, who homesteaded the Currie Ranch (aka "Currie's", later the name of a Pacific Great Eastern Railway stop) in what is now the area of the Mount Currie community/reserve in the 1870s and was the re-builder of the Pemberton Trail.[2][1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e Bivouac.com. Mt. Currie. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
  2. ^ BC GNIS. BCGNIS listing "Mount Currie" (summit). Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
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