MOUNTAIN MONUMENTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 244, 5 January 1928, Page 13

MOUNTAIN MONUMENTS

CANADIANS HONOURED No man could havo a more endurinp* monument than a mountain. In naming five of the Peaks of the Cariboos, in British Columbia, on the routing of the Canadian National Lines the National Geographic Board did honour to four of Canada’s most distinguished citizens of the last century and to England’s chief statesman, the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin. It was a splendid gesture in the Jubilee Year of Canada.

The highest peak of the five is the magnificent Mount Sir Wilfred Laurier. It towers 11,,50 feet in the air and was at one time known as the Titan Mount Sir John Abbott and Mount Sir John Thompson are each approximatelv 11,250 feet high and Mount 'Sir Mackenzie Bo well is 11,000 feet. Premier Baldwin’s Peak is just 100 feet less than that and was once called Challenger. The five are to be known as the Premier Group. All the other peaks in the district are at present unnamed. Here lies an opportunity to have a peak named after one of New Zealand’s premiers in our older but still, sister Dominion.

In naming the mountains, the Geographic Board has linked up the present with the days of Confederation. Sir John Thompson was Premier of Canada on the retirement of Homes in ISS2. Sir John Abbott took the o£ the Gove rnment on the of . S i r John A * Macdonald in IS9I, resigning in 1892, when Thompson again stepped in. Sir Mackenzie Bowell succeeded Thompson in 1394.