ḵ’els is a mountain located at the head of lekw’emin (Jervis Inlet) above the ancestral shíshálh village site of x̱enichen and within the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. The mountain is associated with a shíshálh legend about a great flood.
ḵ’els is a mountain located at the head of lekw’emin (Jervis Inlet) above the ancestral shíshálh village site of x̱enichen and within the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. The mountain is associated with a shíshálh legend about a great flood.
In 1860, during a survey by , the mountain was named "Mount Victoria" after Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria who was the ninth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. The name ḵ’els, which means "anchor" in she shashishalhem, was legally restored on June 21, 2023.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).