Mount McBride

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Mount McBride
Elevation 2,083 m
Location Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Prominence 918 m
Coordinates 49°43.3′N 125°39.0′W
Topo map NTS 92F/12
First ascent 1926

Mount McBride is a mountain located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. It is 34 km E of Gold River and 10 km NE of the Golden Hinde.

Mount McBride is one of two peaks in British Columbia named for BC Sir Richard McBride. The other is Mount Sir Richard. There is a second Mount McBride named for another of that name elsewhere in BC and yet another in the Yukon.

The first ascent is uncertain but may have been Leroy Stirling Cokely in 1926.

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  • Philip Stone (2003). Island Alpine, A Guide to the Mountains of Strathcona Park and Vancouver Island. Wild Isle Publications: Heriot Bay, BC. ISBN 0-9680766-5-3.