| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Expansion of Dove Creek, NW of Courtenay, Comox Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°43'47"N, 125°11'55"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92F/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Dove Lake adopted 31 December 1945 on C3591, as labelled on 1944 Department of National Defence map 654A, Courtenay (file C.1.45). Objections raised by Comox-Courtenay Board of Trade and name changed to Anderson Lake 7 October 1948 on 92 F/11, to conform to local usage (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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Anderson is the well-established local name, after trapper Tommy Anderson, "....a fine old pioneer and trail blazer who built a cabin here in the 1920's.... another at McKenzie Lake and one on Mount Wood. [He] died some years ago." (letter May 1936, file F.2.34) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |