Name Notes: Named in 1885 by George M. Dawson in 1885 after the name of the Stoney or Assiniboines First Nations. James Outram described Assiniboine majestically in the following from his writing about the mountain, "Its massive pyramid forms a conspicuous landmark from almost every considerable eminence for scores of miles around, towering fully 1500 feet above its neighbours, and by its isolation no less than by its splendid outline commanding attention and admiration."The Assiniboine, also known as the Assnipwan or sometimes the Stone Sioux, are originally from the Northern Great Plains area of North America (Montana, Saskatchewan, Alberta and southwestern Manitoba around the US/Canadian border). Images of Assiniboine people were painted by such 19th century artists as Karl Bodmer and George Catlin. The Assiniboine have many similarities to the Lakota (Sioux) people in lifestyle, linguistics, and cultural habits, and are considered to be a band of the "Nakoda" or middle division of the Lakota.
Mount Assiniboine adopted in 1917 by the Geographic Board of Canada, as labelled on BC map 4G, 1914, and on BC-Alberta boundary sheet # 12, 1916.
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office
Not named on Palliser's 1857-60 map of British North America; not named on Trutch's 1871 map of BC; named Assiniboine Mtn on George Dawson's Reconnaisance Map of the Rocky Mountains, published in 1886 from 1884 surveys, and so-identified in his accompanying report (Canadian Geological Survey Report, Vol I, 1885); in that report, Dawson mentions several names applied by Palliser, Hector, Blackiston etc, but 'Assiniboine' is not one of them, so presumably Dawson had named the feature.
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office
Named after the Assiniboine (Stoney) Indians, who hunted in the Rocky Mountains from the 49th parallel to the North Saskatchewan - Athabasca watershed; the name means "those who cook by placing hot stones in water".
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office
"...These Indians were originally from the south and belonged to the Sioux. The Crees called them 'Assin Bwan" (Stony Sioux), hence the name of the river (Assiniboine) on the banks of which they camped. The original name of the river, on an old map, is 'Stone Indian' river, so named from the way in which they heated water to cook with. Stones were made very hot and put into vessels made of the clay on the banks of the river...". (10 March 1913 letter from A.H. Whitcher, Geographic Board of Canada, to James White; published in "Place Names in Vicinity of Yellowhead Pass, Canadian Alpine Journal, vol VI, 1914-15, pp.143-158)
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