Ḵ'els
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ḵ’els is a mountain located at the head of lekw’emin (Jervis Inlet) above the ancestral shíshálh village site of x̱enichen and within the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. The mountain is associated with a shíshálh legend about a great flood. In 1860, during a survey by , the mountain was named "Mount Victoria" after Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria who was the ninth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. The name ḵ’els, which means "anchor" in she shashishalhem, was legally restored on June 21, 2023. The first colonial ascent of ḵ’els was made in 1931 by Arthur Tinniswood Dalton and Percy Williams Easthope.
ḵ’els is a mountain located at the head of lekw’emin (Jervis Inlet) above the ancestral shíshálh village site of x̱enichen and within the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. The mountain is associated with a shíshálh legend about a great flood. In 1860, during a survey by , the mountain was named "Mount Victoria" after Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria who was the ninth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. The name ḵ’els, which means "anchor" in she shashishalhem, was legally restored on June 21, 2023. The first colonial ascent of ḵ’els was made in 1931 by Arthur Tinniswood Dalton and Percy Williams Easthope. ==References== ==External links== CM_C2308 Fraser River to N.E.Pt. of Texada Island including Howe Sound and Jervis Inlet 'Annotated' 1863.02.16 1865.08 from the 1860 Survey Map of the Jervis Inlet and Mt.Victoria.
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