Mount Richard Bennett is a peak located at co-ordinates in the

Premier Range The Premier Range is a group of mountains within the Cariboo Mountains of east-central British Columbia, Canada. The range (also known as the Premier Group) is bounded by the Raush River and Kiwa Creek to the north, the North Thompson River on the ...

of the

Cariboo Mountains The Cariboo Mountains are the northernmost subrange of the Columbia Mountains, which run down into the Spokane area of the United States and include the Selkirks, Monashees and Purcells. The Cariboo Mountains are entirely within the province of ...

in the east-central interior of

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. The mountain is just north of the taller Mount Sir John Abbott and is often considered a continuation of that mountain. The name honours the eleventh

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Richard Bedford Bennett Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett, (July 3, 1870 – June 26, 1947), was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, philanthropist, and politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Canada from 1930 to 1935. Bennett was born in ...

, who died in 1947. The mountain was officially renamed after Bennett in 1962.

External links

Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia listing
for Mount Richard Bennett * Three-thousanders of British Columbia Cariboo Mountains Cariboo Land District {{BritishColumbia-geo-stub