Alleyne Lake
| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | S of junction of Quilchena and Pothole Creeks, SE of Merritt, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°55'07"N, 120°34'01"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92H/15 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 6 October 1936 on 92H/ E, as labelled on BC map 2B, 1914, and as labelled on R.D. McCaw's 1924 map, and as listed in the 1930 Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Dad Allen, prospector in the 1900's. Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |