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Teare Creek

British Columbia. Creek: Fraser River drainage
Flows W into Fraser River just SW of McBride
53.2864 N 120.1083 W — Map 93H/8 — GoogleGeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1976
Official in BCCanada

Adopted 1976 as required for water licencing purposes. In the absence of any known local name, “Teare” chosen by Water Rights Branch in association with Mount Teare at the head of the creek. Highway 16 and access road construction through Lot 5311 has diverted upstream drainage northwest through ditches adjacent to Hwy 16, thence into the Fraser River almost 1 mile north of the mouth of Teare Creek.

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Saddle Lakes

British Columbia. Lakes: Columbia River drainage
W side of Canoe Reach (Kinbasket Lake), across from Ptarmigan Bay
52.5722 N 118.8861 W — Map 83D/10 — GoogleGeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1989
Official in BCCanada

Adopted in 1989 on as submitted by BC Recreational Fisheries Branch; descriptive of surrounding topography.

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Blackmore Creek

British Columbia. Creek: Columbia River drainage
Flows NE into Canoe Reach, Kinbasket Lake
52.6333 N 118.9833 W — Map 83D/10 — GoogleGeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1954
Official in BCCanada

After Robert Blackmore, one of the party with R.H. Lee in 1895, on an exploratory trip to the Big Bend country. See 1895 field book 176A/1895, ph 3, Lillooet Land District.
The name “Blackmore” was first suggested for a nearby creek, already well known as Bulldog Creek (file C.1.53). “Blackmore” re-positioned to this feature, to retain the name in the immediate vicinity

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Cranberry Creek

British Columbia. Creek: Fraser River drainage
Flows N into Swift Creek at Valemount
52.8367 N 119.2908 W — Map 083D14 — GoogleGeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1991
Official in BCCanada

Name required in 1991 for water licence; in the absence of any known local name, “Cranberry” chosen because historically, this creek used to flow out of Cranberry Lake.

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