| Feature Type: | Lakes - Inland body of standing water. Plural of Lake. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | N of Kakwa Lake near BC-Alberta boundary, E of Prince George, Cariboo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 54°05'34"N, 120°11'48"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 93I/1 |
| Related Maps: |
93I 93I/1 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 17 August 1965 on 93I, as labelled on BC map 1H, 1917, and on plan 10T264, "Topographic survey of head of McGregor River" by A.J. Campbell, BCLS, 1929, and as recommended for adoption by BC Geographic Division 1933 (file 34275s #3) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Five lakes in the chain. 3 drain east to Kakwa River, the other 2 drain west through Jarvis Creek. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named by R. W. Jones, a GTP surveyor who was in the area about 1904-06 (information from S. Prescott Fay, file P.1.47). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Jarvis Creek flows out of a chain of 5 lakes..." (excerpt from Major Hannington's journal, 24 February 1875, being an account of his explorations with E.W. Jarvis, 1874-75, and marking this location as "Summit between B.Columbia and the N.W. Territory") (copy provided December 1956 by S. Prescott Fay, file P.1.47) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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This feature had been mis-labelled "Barbara Lakes" on "Exploration...Wapiti River to the Fraser River" compiled in 1928 by H.G. Dimsdale & Prentiss Gray (Geog. map 14-P) "....we found in Jarvis Pass a chain of four beautiful lakes, sketched by Mr. Prescott Fay about 1914, fed by the perpetual snows and ice-fields of Mounts Teepee and Kitchi [sic]. These lakes were the principal source of the Barbara River [sic], so we called them Barbara Lakes...." ( from"A New Low Pass of the Rockies" by Prentiss Gray, published in Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. vol LXXX No.2, August 1932) [note that Gray's names "Barbara River" and "Barbara Lakes" (after his daughter) were not accepted - he had simply ignored the prior existence of "Jarvis". Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |