Coldstream Creek
| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows W into N end of Kalamalka Lake, Osoyoos Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°13'25"N, 119°15'47"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/3 |
| Related Maps: |
82L/3 82L/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 11 January 1922, as labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915, and on BC map 4J, 1921. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Colonel Charles Frederick Houghton came to BC with the Vernons in 1863 and pre-empted land along this creek, and land near the head of Okanagan Lake, which he held in partnership with them until 1869, when by partition agreement he took the latter parcel and gave up "the Coldstream Farm". Trutch's 1871 map of British Columbia shows "Houghton's Coldstream". These references indicate that Houghton probably named the stream. (12th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society, 1948.) Source: included with note |