| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows SW into Canoe Reach, N of Wood Arm Kinbasket Lake, Cariboo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 52°17'24"N, 118°32'39"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 83D/7 |
| Related Maps: |
83D 83D/7 83D/8 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 5 March 1935 on Jasper Park south. Drainage information very sketchy at that time; more detailed topographic information indicated that Baker Creek is much shorter that originally thought. Application altered 22 February 1963 on 83 D with mouth at 52 24 - 118 40 and headwaters at 52 21 - 118 26. Coordinates of mouth further adjusted 19 March 1974 on 83 D/7, due to flooding of Kinbasket Lake. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Had been as identified as "Branch of Canoe River" without a specific name, on BC-Alberta boundary sheet 27, 1921. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after Col. James Baker, Provincial Secretary and Minister of Mines for BC, 1892 - 1898. First labelled on a map published in 1896 (title not cited in BC files) (information provided by H. Nation, 1934) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |