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Mount Stephenson
Mount Stephenson is located in British Columbia
Mount Stephenson
Mount Stephenson
Location in British Columbia
Mount Stephenson is located in Canada
Mount Stephenson
Mount Stephenson
Location in Canada
Highest point
Elevation 2,037 m (6,683 ft)
Prominence 855 m (2,805 ft)
Parent peak Grant Peak
Geography
Location British Columbia, Canada
Parent range Solitude Range
Topo map NTS 93O/8

Mount Stephenson, is a 2,037-metre (6,683 ft) mountain in the Solitude Range of the Hart Ranges in Northern British Columbia.

The mountain is named for Canadian Army Corporal Harry Stephenson, from Kilkerran (north of Dawson Creek, BC). Corporal Stephenson served with the 10 Field Squadron, Canadian Engineers with the 5th Canadian Armoured Division and was killed in action on 11 September 1944, along the Italian Gothic Line, age 31. He is buried at Gradara War Cemetery, Italy.

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