Mount Currie (British Columbia)

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

Mount Currie, known as Ts'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, home of the Lil'wat First Nation.

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.^[1][2]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Bivouac.com. "Mt. Currie". http://www.bivouac.com/MtnPg.asp?MtnId=655. Retrieved 2008-05-25. 
2. ^ "Mount Currie (summit)". BC Geographical Names. http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/6538.html.