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After M.D. Geddes of Calgary, an outstanding alpinist who was killed on Mount Lefroy in 1927.

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After George Monro Grant (1835-1902), who in 1872 accompanied Sir Sandford Fleming on an overland journey to the Pacific. He later published an account of this expedition in his Ocean to Ocean. He became Principal Grant of Queen's University.

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From a fancied resemblance to the head of an Indian in war regalia.

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After the Reverend George Kinney, who in 1909, with Curly Phillips, made the first ascent to Mount Robson's summit crest. Kinney made his climb in bad weather and found a dangerous snow comb at the top. Since it is uncertain whether he reached the highest point on the mountain or a snow dome a few hundred feet from it, alpine purists credit Foster, MacCarthy, and Kain in 1913 with the first ascent of the mountain.

After Robert Machray (1831-1904), Archbishop of Rupert's Land.

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After Roderick McLennan, who camped on the river with his CPR survey party in 1871.
McLennan River

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One of the most unusual expeditions in the history of British Columbia occurred in the summer of 1863, when the epileptic English nobleman William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton (1839-77), his personal physician Dr. Walter Cheadle, an utterly useless classical scholar named O' Beirne, and a part Indian guide and the latter's Indian wife and son, entered the province by the Yellowhead Pass and found their way down the trackless wilderness of the Albreda and North Thompson Rivers until, emaciated and starving, they arrived at Kamloops.

The expurgated version of their travels, The North-West Passage by Land, was published in 1865 and, being a highly readable book, went into a number of editions. In it one reads how, as they travelled down the Albreda, they saw 'a magnificent mountain, covered with glaciers, and apparently blocking up the valley before us. To this Cheadle gave the name of Mount Milton.'

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After the eccentric Eugene Francis O'Beirne. (See Milton, Mount.)

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Mountains in this range are named after prime ministers of Canada: Sir John Abbott, R.B. Bennett, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Mackenzie King, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Arthur Meighen, Lester Pearson, and Louis St. Laurent. Some other prime ministers have mountains elsewhere in the province.

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The highest mountain in the Canadian Rockies and a major problem in the study of BC place names.The name Robson's Peak was already in use when Milton and Cheadle saw it in 1863, a fact that makes very suspect the theory that the mountain was named after John Robson, who became Premier of British Columbia in 1889. Some questionable evidence indicates that the mountain may have been referred to as Mount Robinson as early as 1827. Actually both Robinson and Robertson were often given the slurred pronunciation of 'Robson.'

The most probable of some ten contending theories about Mount Robson's name is that it was named after Colin Robertson (1783-1842), an HBC officer who, after his retirement from the fur trade, became a member of the parliament of the united provinces of Upper and Lower Canada. In 1820 Robertson, in charge of the HBC post of St. Mary's, Peace River, sent a company of Iroquois fur hunters across the Rockies to the area around Téte Jaune Cache. This party, with Ignace Giasson in command and Pierre Hatsinaton (perhaps the original 'Téte Jaune') as guide, must have passed close to Mount Robson and probably named it after Robertson.

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After the young man from Port Coquitlam who, with one leg amputated, ran halfway across Canada in 1980 in his Marathon of Hope to raise funds for cancer research.

Renewed ravages of the disease forced him to abandon the Thunder Bay-Vancouver stretch of his run, and he died the following year, but Canadians contributed over $22 million to the cause he championed and learned anew what a hero is. This mountain, 8,656 feet (2,651 metres) in altitude, was the highest unnamed BC peak within sight of a public highway when the province made it a memorial to Terry Fox.

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As the Geographic Board of Canada noted in its eighteenth report, 'The strata of the mountain have been upheaved to an almost vertical position.'