{{short description|Mountain in British Columbia, Canada}} {{hatnote|For another mountain, see Mount Tod (Antarctica). Not to be confused with Mount Todd.}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Mount Tod | other_name = ''Skwelkwekwelt'' | image = Mount_Tod.jpg | image_caption = Mount Tod, looking Northwest. | elevation_m = 2155 | elevation_ref = | prominence_m = 1523 | prominence_ref = <ref name="bivouaclogan">{{cite bivouac | name = Mount Tod | id = 4107 | access-date = 2011-03-13 }}</ref> | range = Monashee Mountains<br/>Columbia Mountains | listing = {{unbulleted list |Mountains of British Columbia |Canada prominent peaks 133rd }} | native_name ={{native name|shs|Skwelkwekwelt}} | location = British Columbia, Canada | district = Kamloops Division Yale Land District | map = Canada British Columbia | map_caption = Location in British Columbia | label_position = left | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 8 | mapframe-caption = Interactive map of Mount Tod | coordinates = {{coord|50|55|00|N|119|56|27|W|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_ref = <ref name=bcgnis>{{cite bcgnis|id=20917|name=Mount Tod|access-date=2019-12-16}}</ref> | topo_map = NTS {{Canada NTS Map Sheet|82|L|13}}<ref name=bcgnis/> }} '''Mount Tod''' (Secwemptsin: '''Skwelkwekwelt''' <ref name = "shuswap">{{Cite web | title = Secwepemc Historical Sites | work = Secwepemculecw, Land of the Shuswap | access-date = 2012-09-06 | url = http://landoftheshuswap.com/placename.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023119/http://landoftheshuswap.com/placename.html | archive-date = 2016-03-04 | url-status = dead }}</ref>), commonly known as '''Tod Mountain''', is a summit 50 km northeast of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. Located northeast of the junction of Louis and McGillivray Creeks,<ref name=bcgnis/> it is part of the upland area between the Interior Plateau (W) and the Monashee Mountains (E) known as the Shuswap Highland, the mountain is the highest of three summits comprising the Sun Peaks alpine ski resort.
==Name origin== The mountain is named for John Tod,<ref>{{cite web |title=History: Eerie tales about Victoria's Tod House|url=https://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/history-eerie-tales-about-victorias-tod-house-4655794|publisher=Times Colonist |access-date=June 25, 2024}}</ref> one of the most prominent of the fur traders assigned to the New Caledonia fur district. He first joined the Hudson's Bay Company in 1813.<ref name=bcgnis_inlet>{{cite bcgnis|id=20918|title=Tod Inlet|access-date=2019-12-16}}</ref> He was in charge of Fort McLeod from 1823 to 1832, and in charge of Fort Kamloops (1841–43). His retirement home in Victoria, on which he began construction in 1850, is the oldest inhabited house in British Columbia.<ref name="bivouaclogan"/>
Also named for him is Tod Inlet, a sidewater of Saanich Inlet and formerly the name of a post office at that location, to the southwest of Brentwood Bay, and also Tod Creek, which flows into it, and Tod Rock, which is offshore.<ref name=bcgnis_inlet/>
Mount Lolo, which is nearer to Kamloops than Mount Tod, is named for his right-hand man and interpreter, Jean Baptiste Lolo aka Chief Lolo, as is Paul Lake ("St. Paul" or "Chief Paul" were other names for Chief Lolo).
== Traditional land use == Skwelkwekwelt was known as a place where moose and deer meat was dried to last through the winter. As of 2012, a Shuswap website notes, "Many roots and medicines were harvested by the people at Skwelkwekwelt. This traditional use area is being destroyed by major expansion to the Sun Peaks Ski resort and by logging."<ref name = "shuswap"/>
==See also== *Tod (disambiguation)
==External links== * [https://www.outdoorvancouver.ca/mount-tod-hike-sun-peaks/ Hiking route description for summiting Mount Tod]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tod}} Category:Two-thousanders of British Columbia Category:Thompson Country Category:Monashee Mountains Category:Interior Plateau Category:Kamloops Division Yale Land District