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Jensen Road

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British Columbia. Road
Forks off Sansom Road W of McBride
Roads are not in the official geographical names databases
References:

  • Wheeler, Marilyn. The Robson Valley Story. McBride, B.C.: Robson Valley Story Group, 1979
  • McBride Cemetary. Grave markers. 2000
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Taggart Lane

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British Columbia. Road
Village of McBride
53.3042 N 120.1639 W Google — GeoHack
Roads are not in the official geographical names databases
Doug Taggart with Horses. Date unknown.

Doug Taggart with Horses. Date unknown.
Valley Museum & Archives Society

Douglas H. Taggart was mayor of McBride from 1969 to 1977 or later. He served on the McBride Hospital Board at its inception in 1954. His wife was Ellen Lillian Porrier Taggart [1923-2014].

Derr Creek

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Alberta. Creek: Athabasca River drainage
Flows S into Miette River near Yellowhead Pass
52.8853 N 118.3803 W — Map 083D16 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1900 (McEvoy)
Name officially adopted in 1951
Official in Canada
This creek appears on:
Jobe’s map Jarvis Pass to Yellowhead 1915
Pre-emptor’s map Tête Jaune 3H 1923
Boundary Commission Sheet 29 (surveyed in 1917)
Boundary Commission Sheet 29 A (surveyed in 1917)

Named by James McEvoy [1862–1935] after S. Derr, a packer and guide from Edmonton.

Fourteen miles in a straight line from the Athabasca, Derr Creek, the largest tributary of the Miette, fiows in through three separate mouths. The valley is here wider than elsewhere and the dry open tract of grassy land between the branching mouths of Derr Creek is known as Dominion prairie.

— McEvoy 1900

References:

  • McEvoy, James [1862–1935]. Report on the geology and natural resources of the country traversed by the Yellowhead Pass route from Edmonton to Tête Jaune Cache comprising portions of Alberta and British Columbia. Ottawa: Geological Survey of Canada, 1900. Natural Resources Canada
  • Karamitsanis, Aphrodite [1961–]. Place names of Alberta. Volume 1: Mountains, Mountain Parks and Foothills. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1991
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Hihuna River

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British Columbia. Former unofficial name: Fraser River drainage
Resplendent Creek
Not currently an official name.
This former unofficial name appears on:
Jobe map Jarvis to Yellowhead 1915

This name appears on the Jobe map but is not mentioned in her report.

On July 30th [1914] we left Grant Brook station on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. We traveled with an outfit of four saddle horses and four pack horses along the Moose River, a three days’ journey to Moose Pass.

References:

  • Jobe Akeley, Mary Lenore [1878–1966]. “Mt. Kitchi: A New Peak in the Canadian Rockies.” Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, Volume 47, No. 7 (1915):481-497. JSTOR
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Blueberry Lake

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British Columbia. Local unofficial name: Fraser River drainage
Headwaters of Holmes River near Continental Divide
53.3542 N 119.5436 W Google — GeoHack
Not currently an official name.

Possibly the Meadow Lake of the Mary Jobe map of 1915.

The Blueberry Lake trail starts just past 42 km on the Holmes Forest Service Road, about 10 km east of McBride. There is a small gravel pit for parking and the signed trailhead is just past. The trailhead is a resupply point on the Great Divide Trail.

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