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Doupe, Mount Official Name

Feature Type: Mount

Latitude: 49°12'15" Position at: CENTRE

Longitude: 114°45'10"

Gazetteer Map: 82G/2
Relative Location: W of headwaters of Twentynine Mile Creek, E of Elko, SE of Fernie, Kootenay Land District

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Doupe, Mount	Official Name
Feature Type:	Mount
Latitude:	49°12'15"	Position at: CENTRE
Longitude:	114°45'10"
Gazetteer Map:	82G/2
Relative Location:	W of headwaters of Twentynine Mile Creek, E of Elko, SE of Fernie, Kootenay Land District
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Origin Notes and History

Adopted 17 December 1962 on 82G/SE.
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

Named after Jacob Lonsdale Doupe, DLS, PLS, who surveyed in this area in 1899; he obtained his commission as a Provincial Land Surveyor in 1898 and practiced until 1932; his name is associated with 1915 surveys in the Railway Belt in professional land surveyors' index; Doupe was in his 90's when he died at Victoria in 1952.
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office