Official Naming Of Mountain Set for Today

Saturday, June 10, 2006 03:56 AM

Mount Trudeau to be officially named today at special ceremony in Valemount opinion250 file photo

It has taken three years of lobbying, but today, the work pays off for those who battled to have this mountain named Mount Pierre Elliot Trudeau.

Justin Trudeau, the son of the former Prime Minister, will be on hand for the ceremony which will take place at 12:30 this afternoon in front of the Valemount Village office on Gorse Street.

Clearly visible from Highway 5, the 2490 metre high peak has been known to locals and ski enthusiasts as “Ski Hill Mountain”.

The peak is located in the Premier Range of the Cariboo Mountains, a range which was designated to honour Canadian leaders. In addition to Mount Trudeau, this range is also home to Mount (Lyon Mackenzie) King, Mount (Arthur) Meighen, Mount (Lester B. Pearson, Mount (Richard) Bennett, and Mount (Sir Wilfrd) Laurier.

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Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 03:56 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on June 10 2006 4:36 AM

Well the only good thing I guess is someone can rename that mountain something else in a few years, long after people have forgotten the one fingered man.

Posted by: Chester on June 10 2006 10:33 AM

Makes sense that the people involved in naming this mountain has to battle for it. Can't imagine much support coming from the west. Chester

Posted by: diplomat on June 10 2006 2:36 PM

Mount Colin Kinsley next?

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on June 10 2006 11:23 PM

Ugh kb, I think it was inspite of PET, rather than because of him. Quebec is a separate country, the West wants out, and without the advantage of the natural resourses in the west, Canada would be just another banana republic.

Posted by: trusted on June 11 2006 10:42 AM

I trust we should all be paying attention to YamaDooPolCat.
To add to his posting-I cannot understand why the West does not GET OUT.
Would someone tell me the advantage of remaining-and why should the 4 Western provinces contribute over 50% to the GNP, and be repeatedly ignored by the Feds?
There are, I am sure, many posters capable of answering, citing the pros and cons of separating.
I, for one, would be interested.
The Americans own us already-they just do not have to cater to us-or even put up with us.
We are the "dumb" Canadians in their opinion.
I agree!!!!

Posted by: mountianman on June 11 2006 10:46 AM

Yama: When I last checked, Quebec is a province of Canada. There are tons of natural resources that stretch from sea to sea to sea.

Chester: It took about 4 years to name the mountian. It was put on the fast track! Considering that mountians are named (usually) only once, and that name will last etertity, it must be carefully done.

Posted by: mountianman on June 11 2006 10:48 AM

trusted: I think you just called yourself a dummy!

Posted by: trusted on June 11 2006 1:47 PM

I trust you read it correctly mountainman-but normally dummies do not have a great deal of imput!!!!!
At least this dummy would like to see a change.
It is the real idiots who cannot see the forest for the trees.
Shoot-the rate we are going I trust we will not have to worry about that either!!!!
By the way-are you trying to spell "mountain?" I hope "etertity" does not mean "eternity????"
I don't like a Trudeau Mountain either!!! Sounds dumb!!!! I trust some intelligence will surface by the "powers that be" in years to come-and it will be renamed.
Not that I really give a damn!!

Posted by: steeliepete on June 11 2006 9:45 PM

No mountains in Quebec? Why not name BC/AB mountains after influencial Western folks. I don't know, what about Jimmy Pattison? Rich countries like ours needs to spend our riches and time on mountain naming campaigns. It's only natural. Terry Fox has a mountain. I think he's very deserving of a mountain. I also think that Rick Hansen should get one. Do we have to wait 'til he's dead? I'd also like to nominate "Burnaby" Joe Sakic and maybe if we have a couple of mountains that look alike we could call them the Niedermayer peaks. I'm now wondering how many unnamed mountains are left. If there's lots maybe we could sell the rights to name the mountains to cool companies like Nintendo and Sony. That would be cool. We could make money from that....right? 'nough said.

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on June 11 2006 11:04 PM

Mountainman, "the name will last eternity.." Eternity is a long time, certainly way longer than your memory. You forget already that they wanted to dump the mountain named after Logan, and name it PET? Mountains are named on the flavour of the hour, just like all the Squaw lakes are called something else now, and Rape seed is called whatever.
Oh, and Quebec is a separate country - the only thing they stick around for as a province is for the cash. Go visit there some time.

Posted by: owl on June 12 2006 1:23 AM

all this over naming a piece of ground .... it wasn't named 10,000 years ago and will not likely be named 10,000 years from now ... at least not PET if anyone is still around .... and that is not even anywhere close to an eternity ....

BTW, the oil will run out in Alberta long before 10,000 years from now, so let us just realize that all this one-upmanship just because of where you were born or where you live is utter nonsense.

There is absolutely nothing of value that Albertans are adding to Canada that is of greater value than any other Canadians are adding. They are simply following in the footsteps of all the other New Rich before them and with them .... it will take a few generations before they mature and have some class which makes them part of the human race ... till then, the rest of us will simply have to tolerate them and carry on with our lives.

;-)

Posted by: owl on June 12 2006 1:26 AM

Now ... Albertan ranchers, well, that is a whole different story. They are people of the earth, and if they happen to sit on some oil and they have the rights to it, I wish them all the best because they deserve getting a windfall after toiling on the land.

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on June 12 2006 7:41 AM

Owl I don't know how muddy one has to get to be a "person of the earth", but Albertans add more than most to Canada's well being. Quebec adds the most discontent. That's a fact.
On the opinion side, if we had to choose, I think Quebec exhibits the most "class" - in it's truest form, but adds the least to Canada. The Quebec language structure (kind of a piggen French), based on a top down regimentation, is reflected in their early influence on Confederation and a dependence on authority to govern all aspects of their lives.
You don't find that kind of ridgity in Alberta.
With out ridgity of social structure there is no snobbery, hence no "class" of the kind Owl ranks people on.
I have worked with both people and places and my choice is the classy Albertan style. You just don't see many muddy people in Quebec.