Pearse Lake
| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Expansion of Browns River on Forbidden Plateau, Strathcona Provincial Park, Comox Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°41'39"N, 125°16'02"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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Adopted 12 December 1939 as submitted September 1935 by Ruth Masters, Comox Mountaineering Club; re-approved 7 October 1948 on 92F/11. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Mr. Theed Pearse, naturalist, former alderman and mayor of Courtenay. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |