Campbell Lake
| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Expansion of Scuitto Creek, SE of Kamloops, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°33'12"N, 120°05'57"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92I/9 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 7 June 1927 on Kamloops sheet (file K.1.27, Ottawa file OBF 1140). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Labelled "Lew Lake (Campbell Lake) " on BC map 1EM, 1915. "Campbell Lake (not Lew Lake)" identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. "Lew" was an alternate or mistaken spelling of Campbell's given name, Louis; see Campbell Creek for additional origin information. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after Louis Campbell, old time rancher in the district. See Campbell Creek. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |