John Brown Lake
| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Just E of Moat Lake on Forbidden Plateau, Strathcona Provincial Park, Comox Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°40'39"N, 125°22'06"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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John Brown Lake adopted 17 September 1984 on 92F/11, as submitted by Ruth Masters, Comox District Mountaineering Club. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named by Ruth Masters, Comox District Mountaineering Club, after John Brown, early prospector and one of the first people to explore Forbidden Plateau in the 1920's; he worked in the Cumberland coal mines for many years, beginning c1898, and had a cabin on Circle Lake. Over the years he constructed numerous trails on the Plateau. Died in the 1960s. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |