Name: Sentinel, Garibaldi, and Table
Narrative: Nice view of three peaks.
Mount Garibaldi is an extinct volcano situated northeast of Squamish and south of Garibaldi Lake. In 1860, Captain Richards of the Royal Navy, named the mountain after the Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi. The Squamish name for the mountain and its surrounding area is Nch'kay, which means “Dirty Place,” because the sediments eroding off its slopes washed into and muddied the creeks and rivers around it, such as the Cheekeye River. (Cheekeye is an Anglicized version of Nch'kay.) Because Nch'kay served as a refuge during the great flood, the Squamish people consider the mountain sacred.
Web Site Accession Number: 2005.680.0545
Object Height: 8 cm
Object Width: 8 cm
Credit: University of British Columbia Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research, John Davidson Lantern Slide 545
Object Date(s): unknown
Artist: Davidson, John
Media: lantern slide [black tape, glass]
Locale of Artwork: Garibaldi Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
