Ball Lake
| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | S of Lake Helen MacKenzie on Forbidden Plateau, Strathcona Provincial Park, Comox Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°41'45"N, 125°18'54"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92F/11 |
Ministry of Land, Water and Resource Stewardship - GeoBC Branch
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 12 December 1939 on 92 F/11, as suggested September 1935 by Comox Mountaineering Club (file F.2.34). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Mr. A.B. Ball, a Courtenay alderman who took a special interest in the development of the Forbidden Platuea area. For many years he had owned the general store at Royston. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |