Horsefly Lake
| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | S of Quesnel Lake, NE of 150 Mile House, Cariboo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 52°24'27"N, 121°02'00"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 93A/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 12 December 1939 on 93A/6 as labelled on Trutch's 1871 map of British Columbia, and on Amos Bowman's 1887 map of the Cariboo Mining District, and on BC map 1G, 1916, etc. See Horsefly (community) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"This whole area is infested with horseflies in the summer." (Place Names in the Cariboo, by Helen Manning, thesis on file at UBC) Source: included with note |