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Encampment Creek
British Columbia. Creek: Columbia River drainage
Flows E into Columbia Reach, Kinbasket Lake
52.15 N 118.5167 W — Map 83D/2 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1939
Official in BC – Canada
Flows E into Columbia Reach, Kinbasket Lake
52.15 N 118.5167 W — Map 83D/2 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1939
Official in BC – Canada
Adopted in 1939 for BC Lands’ map 5D, Revelstoke-Golden, “flowing E into Columbia River at junction with Canoe River”. Location description and coordinates of mouth subsequently adjusted after flooding behind Mica Dam.
Camp Creek labelled on BC Reference Map 42 was likely adjusted to Encampment Creek to avoid duplication and to retain a historic reference: this creek originally flowed into the apex of the great bend [Big Bend] of the Columbia River at approximately 52°8′ N 118°27’15” W opposite Boat Encampment, the place where David Thompson [1770–1857] wintered in 1811. Following flooding of these valleys behind Mica Dam, this creek now flows into Kinbasket Lake.
References:
- British Columbia Geographical Names. Encampment Creek
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Canoe Encampment
British Columbia. Locality: Columbia River drainage
Confluence of Canoe River and Columbia River
52° 7′ 0″ N 118° 26′ 0″ W — Map 83D01 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1811 (David Thompson).
Not currently an official name.
Confluence of Canoe River and Columbia River
52° 7′ 0″ N 118° 26′ 0″ W — Map 83D01 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1811 (David Thompson).
Not currently an official name.
The name for the now-submerged Boat Encampment on Arrowsmith’s 1859 map.
References:
- Arrowsmith, John [1790–1873]. Provinces of British Columbia and Vancouver Island; with portions of the United States and Hudson’s Bay Territories. 1859. UVic
Lac l’Orignal
British Columbia. : Fraser River drainage
Former name for Moose Lake
Former name for Moose Lake
Detail of Tête Jaune Cache area, John Arrowsmith map,1859
Colonial Dispatches, Uvic
“Orignal” is Canadian French for “moose,” derived from Basque oreina “deer” via orignac, the form that the Basque word took on in the Basque-Mi’kmaq pidgin used by the Mi’kmaq and visiting Basque fishermen and whalers.
On Arrowsmith’s 1859 map, Moose Lake appears as “Lac L’Original [sic],” and the two sections of Yellowhead Lake are called Moose Lake and Cow dung Lake.
References:
- Arrowsmith, John [1790 –1873]. Provinces of British Columbia and Vancouver Island; with portions of the United States and Hudson’s Bay Territories. 1859. UVic
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Kettle Lakes
British Columbia. Lakes: Fraser River drainage
W of Yellowhead Lake
52.85 N 118.5833 W — Map 83D/15 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1985
Official in BC – Canada
W of Yellowhead Lake
52.85 N 118.5833 W — Map 83D/15 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1985
Official in BC – Canada
Kettle Lakes
Natural Resources Canada
A kettle (also known as a kettle lake, kettle hole, or pothole) is a hole in an outwash plain formed by retreating glaciers or draining floodwaters. The kettles are formed as a result of blocks of ice left behind by retreating glaciers, which become surrounded by sediment deposited by meltwater streams as there is increased friction. The ice becomes buried in the sediment and when the ice melts, a depression is left called a kettle hole, creating a dimpled appearance on the outwash plain. Lakes often fill these kettles; these are called kettle hole lakes. Another source is the sudden drainage of an ice-dammed lake. When the block melts, the hole it leaves behind is a kettle. As the ice melts, ramparts can form around the edge of the kettle hole. The lakes that fill these holes are seldom more than 10 m deep and eventually become filled with sediment.
References:
- Wikipedia. Kettle
Jackman Flats Park
British Columbia. Provincial Park
SE of Tête Jaune Cache
52.9358 N 119.3861 W Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 2002
Official in BC – Canada
SE of Tête Jaune Cache
52.9358 N 119.3861 W Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 2002
Official in BC – Canada
Jackman Flats Provincial Park was established in 2000. At the end of the last ice age, some 11,000 years ago, winds from the main trench of the Fraser River and from, what is now, Kinbasket Lake, deposited vast quantities of sand in the Jackman Flats area. This created an ecosystem considered unique in British Columbia. Rare plant communities and shifting sand dune structures now exist in this rather small park (614 ha).
References:
- British Columbia Parks. Jackman Flats Provincial Park
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Mount Terry Fox Park
British Columbia. Provincial Park
Adjacent to SW side of Mount Robson Park
52.95 N 119.25 W — Map 83D/14 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1982
Official in BC – Canada
Adjacent to SW side of Mount Robson Park
52.95 N 119.25 W — Map 83D/14 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1982
Official in BC – Canada
Established on 23 June 1982, containing 1930 hectares more or less.
References:
- British Columbia Parks. Mount Terry Fox Park
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Oasis Creek
British Columbia. Creek: North Thompson River drainage
Flows SE into North Thompson River near Gosnell (railway point)
52.4833 N 119.1333 W — Map 83D/6 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1962
Official in BC – Canada
Flows SE into North Thompson River near Gosnell (railway point)
52.4833 N 119.1333 W — Map 83D/6 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1962
Official in BC – Canada
Origin of the name unknown.
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Pinkerton Creek
British Columbia. Creek: Fraser River drainage
Flows S from Pinkerton Lake into Haggen Creek, N of Wells
53.5781 N 121.5833 W — Map 093H12 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1960
Official in BC – Canada
Flows S from Pinkerton Lake into Haggen Creek, N of Wells
53.5781 N 121.5833 W — Map 093H12 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1960
Official in BC – Canada
Adopted in 1960 as an established local name, and as labelled on BC Lands’ map 1G, 1959.
Note that another watercourse, flowing northwest into Bowron River, was labelled “Pinkerton (Spruce) Creek” on BC Lands’s map 3A, 1915, 1921 & 1944 editions – presumably the stream had been understood to drain Pinkerton Lake. The stream tributary to Bowron River has since been adopted as Spruce Creek, and the name “Pinkerton Creek” has been applied to the stream that drains Pinkerton Lake into Haggen Creek.
Another Pinkerton Creek less than 60km south of here, tributary to Jack of Clubs Creek near Barkerville. That creek was named after John Pinkerton, one of the Overlanders of 1862, who partnered with Thaddeus Harper in mining claims in the Cariboo — possibly the same namesake.
Pinkerton Lake
British Columbia. Lake: Fraser River drainage
Near headwaters of Pinkerton Creek, SW. of Tumuch Lake
53.6261 N 121.5436 W — Map 093H12 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1924
Official in BC – Canada
Near headwaters of Pinkerton Creek, SW. of Tumuch Lake
53.6261 N 121.5436 W — Map 093H12 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1924
Official in BC – Canada
Association with Pinkerton Creek.