Mount Burwell

Mount Burwell is a 1541 m mountain summit in the Metro Vancouver Regional District of British Columbia, Canada. It is part of the North Shore Mountains, which are a small subrange of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains.

Name origin
Mount Burwell had its first recorded ascent in 1908 by a British Columbia Mountaineering Club party who called it 'White Mountain' due to its bare, white granite top. It was officially named Mount Burwell in 1927, after Herbert Mahlon Burwell (1862–1925), a surveyor and consulting engineer for major waterworks projects for the City of Vancouver. However, the name 'White Mountain' was commonly used until the 1950s.

Access
Mount Burwell is accessible from hiking trails from Lynn Headwaters Regional Park and Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve which lead up to Coliseum Mountain (1441 m), a granitic subpeak of Mount Burwell named for its resemblance to Roman ruins. From Coliseum Mountain, climbers can use a scrambling route to summit Mount Burwell. The northern slopes of Mount Burwell, including Palisade Lake, Burwell Lake, and ridge between line parent Cathedral Mountain, fall within the Seymour and Capilano Watersheds and are closed to the public.