Mount Warburton Pike is a

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Saturna Island Saturna Island is a mountainous island, about in size, in the Southern Gulf Islands chain of British Columbia, Canada. It is situated approximately midway between the Lower Mainland of B.C. and Vancouver Island, and is the most easterly of the ...

in the

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. It is the highest summit in the Gulf Islands, other than

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, and is part of the

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Name origin

The mountain is named for

Warburton Pike Warburton Mayer Pike (1861-1915) was an English explorer of British Columbia and the Canadian Arctic. Pike was born in Wareham, Dorset. He was named after his grandmother's and mother's maiden names. His father (John William Pike) a ball clay mer ...

(1861–1915), who

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on Saturna in 1886 and whose ranch included the mountain. Pike was an explorer, sportsman and author and wrote a book on his experiences in the Canadian North, ''The Barren Ground of Northern Canada''. Pike's death was untimely and tragic. After returning to Britain to enlist for

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and, being refused because he was too old, died by suicide. The summit and a rock in

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were named for him, and a memorial was erected at Porter Landing in the

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region, where he had ventured in his years in B.C. The monument was donated by his friends

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and

Marshall Latham Bond Marshall Latham Bond was one of two brothers who were Jack London's landlords and among his employers during the autumn of 1897 and the spring of 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush. They were the owners of the dog that London fictionalized as Bu ...

References

History of British Columbia

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