Vaseux Lake
| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Expansion of Okanagan River between Skaha and Osoyoos Lakes, S of Penticton, Similkameen Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°17'22"N, 119°31'50"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82E/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Vaseux Lake" adopted 13 April 1945 on the Okanagan Sheet (Ottawa file OBF 0714). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Spelled "Vasuix" lake on Trutch maps 1866 and 1871; a mis-spelling of the French word vaseux, meaning muddy or mirky - descriptive of the lake's silty water. Probably named by French Canadian fur traders. For many years the name was spelt Vaseaux; in 1945 the Geographic Board corrected it to Vaseux at the suggestion of H J Parham, Penticton. (12th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society, 1948). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |