Bucklin Creek
| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows E into Pitt River, E of Squamish, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°42'25"N, 122°43'03"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/10 |
| Related Maps: |
92G/10 92G/15 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 3 May 1951 on 92G, as labelled on BC map 2B, 1914 and identified in 1930 BC Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Edgar H. Bucklin of Small and Bucklin Lumber Company Ltd, New Westminster, which company logged here in the 1900's. Born 1860 in Illinois, he practiced law in Chicago and manufactured salt in New York State and Kanses before entering the lumber business in BC in 1903, and erecting a sawmill at New Westminster. Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |