| Feature Type: | District Municipality (1) - A populated place with legally defined boundaries, incorporated as a district municipality under the provincial Municipal Act. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | S of W end of Kamloops Lake, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°29'39"N, 120°48'47"W at the approximate location of the Municipal Hall. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92I/7 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Logan Lake Village Municipality incorporated 10 November 1970; name confirmed 17 May 1951. Re-incorporated as a District Municipality (date not cited), called District of Logan Lake; name confirmed 29 November 1984 on 92I/7. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Name suggested August 1970 by Lornex Mining Corporation (letter, file M.2.28), in association with the lake of the same name. "The company-owned townsite is being developed to provide housing for workers employed at its nearby open-pit copper mine. It is following growth patterns associated with boom towns of the past..." (Victoria Colonist, 9 September 1970). Logan Lake Post Office was opened 9 August 1971. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |