Snowshoe Mountain
In this despatch from 1863, Douglas may be using “Snow Shoe Mountain” as a general term for all the summits of the Snowshoe Plateau massif, located between Quesnel and the Cariboo Mountains. Today, one of the peaks on the plateua still carries the name French Snowshoe Peak.1
  • 1. Snowshoe Plateau, BC Geographical Names.
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Mentions of this place in the documents
The Colonial Despatches Team. Snowshoe Mountain. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. The Colonial Despatches Team. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/snowshoe_mountain.html.

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