Triangular Hill

Triangular Hill (48˚25'03" 123˚30'40" W of Royal Roads and Victoria, S end of Vancouver I). This feature is one of many on the BC coast that derive their names from the surveying trade. George Aitken, BC’s chief geographer for many years and the province’s long-serving representative on the Geographic Board of Canada, noted that the name was “suggested, no doubt, from early triangulation of land district boundaries” in the vicinity. Triangulation is a process of determining a location...

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