Mount Conway was named for Leading Seaman Archibald Henry William Conway.
On June 25, 1940, “Archie” Conway was lost in action when H.M.C.S.Fraser, a Canadian destroyer, was sunk off the coast of France. TheFraser was evacuating troops from Dunkirk when the Fraser, on return to Plymouth, June 3, 1940, collided with the British cruiser, H.M.S.Calcutta in the Gironde River estuary. Archie was educated on Fairfield Island and at Chilliwack High School, where he was an excellent soccer player. At the time of his death he was the husband of Eileen Helen Conway (nee Cook) of Esquimalt, married November 25, 1932 in Victoria, and was the father of four children. Forty‑seven sailors of H.M.C.S. Fraser’s sailors were lost in the sinking.
In 1947, geographical features were named by an agency of the federal government, the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical names after receiving a list of names of Canadian servicemen from Chilliwack who were killed during the Second World War From Canada’s Department of National Defence. The names were divided by province and were to be assigned to geographical features close to the place of enlistment (Grainger, 1998, p.82).
Mount Conway is located on the northeast ridge moving away from Foley Peak.
- Grainger, N. (1998). The Mountain Project.Chilliwack, B.C.: Neil Grainger
- Ferguson, P. (2009). Chilliwack War Memorial. Online exhibit retrieved from http://www.chilliwackmuseum.ca/war-memorial/WW2_c_names.html
Photograph caption: Leading Seaman Archibald Henry William Conway. [Chilliwack Museum and Archives]