| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | SW of Kamloops, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°28'58"N, 120°28'43"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92I/8 |
| Related Maps: |
92I/7 92I/8 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Labelled "Batchelor (Trout) Lake" on BC maps 2B, 1914, and 1EM, 1915. Chuwhels Lake incorrectly adopted in this location 7 June 1927. Name changed to Le Jeune Lake 7 December 1927; form of name changed to Lac Le Jeune 5 April 1956 (file N.3.26). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Mr. Taggart, DLS, suggested the name, after Father Jean-Marie Le Jeune, OMI. Born 12 April 1855 in Pleyber Christ, France, and arrived in BC in 1879 to work as a Catholic missionary amongst the Sechelt and Sto:lo. Transferred to Kamloops in 1882, later encompassing the Nicola and Shuswap groups. Le Jeune spoke dozens of languages and dialects, and created a pictograph alphabet for the Indians modified from the Duployan system of shorthand, and published the "Wawa", the Chinook jargon newspaper. [Wawa means "speak" or "talk" in Chinook jargon]. See also Lac Le Jeune (locality). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |