![]() ![]() He still has a copy of the topographical map with the name, the first status edition compiled and produced by the Geographic Division and Mapping Branch of the Department of Lands and Forests (provincial government) in 1954-55 and the revised version from 1960. ![]() “Certainly in 1909, that era was definitely a time of ‘us and them’ (visible minorities). That’s how the mountain got its name, Niggertoe Mountain, and that actually appears on a map,” said longtime Penticton historian Randy Manuel, a member of the Okanagan Historical Society. One of them was in a gulch and the fellow’s foot was sticking out of the snow. “They found Arthur Chapman and Charles Blair in two different places. Read part one of this series: The tragic tale of two Summerland men who perished on Christmas Day 1908 ![]() Sadly and tragically this 3,300-foot peak’s initial branding came as a result of the death of two black men who perished from exposure near the base of the mountain, according to historians. Such was the case with a small mountain just northwest of Penticton, overlooking Okanagan Lake in the early 1900s. In years past it was not uncommon for geographical names to commemorate unusual or unique events or persons. The memorial is located in an Indigenous cemetery at the head of Okanagan Lake near Vernon. The gravestone for hereditary chief Inquala whose life was featured in a semi-fictional book by award winning Penticton author Emily Lambert Sharp. ![]()
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