| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Head of Cataract Brook, N of Lake McArthur in Yoho National Park, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°21'18"N, 116°19'54"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82N/8 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Lake O'Hara (not Cascade Lake)" adopted in the 2nd Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 30 June 1900. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in 1894 by Samuel Evans Stokes Allen, Philadelphia alpinist, after Lieutenant-Colonel Richard O'Hara (1835-1924), lieut-colonel, RA, who visited the lake in 1889; served at Gibraltar, 1856-61, was stationed at St. John NB, 1863-69; retired 1878. Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |
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After Lieutenant-Colonel Robert O'Hara of the Royal Artillery. Although he did not discover this beautiful lake, he was probably the first tourist to visit it. He was a prickly character. Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; British Columbia Place Names; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997 |