Wedgwood Peak
- 3030 m (9,941ft)
- First Ascent
- Naming History
- Hiking and Trails
50.8889N -115.659W
Located 2 km southwest of Lake Magog at the headwaters of Wedgwood Creek
Province: BC
Park: Assiniboine
Headwater: Kootenay
Located 2 km southwest of Lake Magog at the headwaters of Wedgwood Creek
Province: BC
Park: Assiniboine
Headwater: Kootenay
Ascent Date: 1910
Ascent Party: T.G. Longstaff, Katharine Longstaff
Ascent Guide: Rudolph Aemmer
Ascent Party: T.G. Longstaff, Katharine Longstaff
Ascent Guide: Rudolph Aemmer
Year Named: 1918
Named for: Wedgwood, Arthur Felix (Arthur Wedgwood was an army officer who was killed during WW I. Katharine Longstaff, who made the first ascent of the mountain in 1910, was his wife.)
Named for: Wedgwood, Arthur Felix (Arthur Wedgwood was an army officer who was killed during WW I. Katharine Longstaff, who made the first ascent of the mountain in 1910, was his wife.)
Popular Hike: Assiniboine
Journal Reference: App 24-255
Journal Reference: App 24-255
Note that the mountain is also spelled, "Wedgewood Peak" in some references. According to Lisa Christensen writing in the Fall/Winter 2005 issue of, "The Cairn" published by the Whyte Museum and Archives, Wedgwood Peak was named in honour of Katharine Longstaff Wedgwood after Katharine, her mounaineer brother Dr. Tom George Longstaff, and Rudolph Aemmer made the first ascent of its north-west face in 1910 and in honour of Katharine's husband Arthur Felix Wedgwood, who was killed in World War I. The Longstaff family were tourists and mountaineers from Sussex, England who first visited the Rockies in 1903.