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Place Names Descriptions
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- Land surveyors in Alberta
named many of the mountains, rivers, lakes and other features
they were surveying. Just over 500 places in Alberta were named
for or named by land surveyors. Some times, the places were
named after people who worked or settled in the area or an
unusual incident. Some times, the names are descriptive based on
the colour of the water or the vegetation in the area. These land
surveyors must have had a tremendous education as many of these
names are based on Latin, Greek and, of course, First Nation
origins. This information was collected from the four-volume set
- Place Names of Alberta.
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- Aberdeen, Mount
82 N/8 - Lake Louise [National Township System
(NTS) Grid Reference System. See
Geographic Names of Canada]
7-28-16-W5 [Legal land description of
the feature in the form of quarter-section, section, township, range,
meridian. See Township System]
51° 23' N 116° 14' W
[Latitude/Longitude of the feature]
Approximately 55 km west north-west of Banff
- This mountain, which is 3,152
m in altitude, was named in 1897 by
J.J. McArthur,
DLS, member responsible for many of the phototopographical
surveys along the railway through the Rocky Mountains. The
mountain was named after Lord John Campbell Gordon, the Marquis
of Aberdeen, Governor-General of Canada from 1893-1898 and a
visitor to Lake Louise in 1893.
Place Names of Alberta Volume I Mountains, Mountain Parks and
Foothills by Aphrodite Karamitsanis
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