| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows W into Lake Revelstoke, S of Downie Creek, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°17'43"N, 118°16'26"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82M/8 |
| Related Maps: |
82M/8 82N/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Carnes Creek adopted 12 December 1939 on Geological Survey's Big Bend sheet; the tributary earlier labelled 'South Branch Carnes Creek' was confirmed as the main stream, as labelled on Geological Survey of Canada's 1929 sheet 237A, Big Bend. (file B.3.38) Application altered 19 March 1987 on 82 M/8, due to flooding of Lake Revelstoke. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Carnes Creek and South Branch Carnes Creek first (?) labelled on Dominion Sectional sheet 162, Seymour, 1914; and on Palmer & Chapman's 1915 Reconnaissance map of the Northern Selkirk Mountains and the Big Bend of the Columbia River; and on BC map 1EM, 1915. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Henry ("Hank") Carnes, who with William Downie, Nelson de Mars, Louis Lee, and Steve Liberty took four boats from Fort Colville and ascended the Columbia River in 1865; they first discovered gold on Carnes Creek but richer finds were made on French Creek in August that same year. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in 1865 by fellow miners after Henry Carnes, who discovered gold on the creek and prospected in the Big Bend area 1865-66. (Victoria Colonist, 17 July 1865, p.3) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"In the spring of 1865 four boatloads of prospectors left Marcus, in Washington Territory, to prospect the Columbia river. They were headed by five men who, in some form or other, have left their mark upon the country, a creek, a basin, or a mountain peak being named after them. These men were Wm. Downie, Hy. Cairns [sic], Nelson De Mars, Louis Lee and Steve Liberty." (1905 BC Mines Report, p.149; excerpt located & shared Sept 2012 by historian John Woods, Revelstoke) Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |