Mount Burke

Mount Burke, a 1,270-metre mountain in northeast Coquitlam, British Columbia, rises along the ridge leading toward Coquitlam Mountain and lies largely within Pinecone Burke Provincial Park. Named in 1859 by Captain George Henry Richards of HMS Plumper for Edmund Burke, it has long been confused with nearby Burke Ridge, also called Burke Mountain, a confusion deepened in the 1920s when that ridge was often called Dollar Mountain after logging by the Canadian Robert Dollar Company. A ski area opened on Mount Burke in the 1960s but closed within about a decade. Since 1995, its setting has been shaped by park protection alongside disputed large-scale development plans on Burke Mountain’s southern slope.

British Columbia · Canada