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Mount Currie (British Columbia)

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Topo map
  
NTS 92J/02

First ascent
  
1922

Province
  
British Columbia

Parent range
  
Garibaldi Ranges

Elevation
  
2,591 m

Prominence
  
346 m

Mountain range
  
Garibaldi Ranges

Location
  
British Columbia, Canada

Similar
  
Birkenhead Peak, Wedge Mountain, Mount Arthur, Mount Frederick William, Mount Clarke

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.

Map of Mount Currie, Squamish-Lillooet C, BC, Canada

The mountain was named for John Currie, the first permanent non-indigenous settler in the Pemberton Valley, who homesteaded the Currie Ranch (a.k.a. "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.

References

Mount Currie (British Columbia) Wikipedia