Mount Artaban

Mount Artaban (49˚28'03" 123˚20'26" SE side of Gambier I, Howe Sd, NW of Vancouver). This 614-m mountain was named by Rev A T F Holmes, of Lulu I, after the Anglican Church’s Camp Artaban, located nearby at the head of Port Graves. The name was adopted in 1929. Camp Artaban, in turn, is named after the protagonist of Henry van Dyke’s book The Story of the Other Wise Man, a popular Christmas tale published in 1896. Van Dyke was a Princeton literature professor and clergyman who also served...

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