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Mount Mark N of Horne Lake. Named in 1860 after Mark Bate, who came to Nanaimo from England in 1857, was employed by HBC and subsequently became the manager of the Vancouver Island and Land Company. In 1875 he became the first mayor of Nanaimo and was repeatedly reelected, often by acclamation. In 1887 when he was believed to be unwilling to run again, 90 per cent of Nanaimo's voters signed a 'requisition calling upon him to do so.