S of headwaters of Kiwa Creek
52.8311 N 119.7928 W — Map 083D13 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1962
Official in BC – Canada
Richard Bedford Bennett (1870-1947) was prime minister of Canada from 1930 to 1935.
Bennett was born in New Brunswick, where he was a school teacher and lawyer before moving to Alberta. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1911, and was prime minister from 1930 to 1935, interrupting Mackenzie King’s term. He died, unmarried, in England.
This feature was known as “Mount Goodell” in Climbers Guide to the Interior Ranges of British Columbia, 1937. But it had previously been renamed in the 1927 Premier Range obsequies.
- Thorington, James Monroe [1895–1989]. A Climber’s Guide to the Interior Ranges of British Columbia. New York: American Alpine Club, 1937