| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows S into Quesnel River adjacent to Quesnel (city) airport, Cariboo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 53°00'18"N, 122°29'27"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 93G/1 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Barlow Creek adopted 28 April 1936 on BC map 3G, as labelled on 1935 edition of same map, not "4 Mile Creek" as labelled on BC Reference map 22D (date/title not cited) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Abraham Barlow ( -1917), an English Jew and merchant, and long a Quesnel rancher and Justice of the Peace. (Manning, Helen B., Place Names in the Cariboo, graduating thesis, April 1943, UBC Library). "Abraham Barlow, Quesnellemouth, merchant; British subject" is listed on 1875, 1879 & 1890 Voters Lists. Source: Provincial Archives' Place Names File (the "Harvey File") compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |
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Named after Adam Barlow, owner of Lot 346 Group 1, Crown Granted on 24 October 1914; property had originally been pre-empted by Frank Trevor, recorded 1 December 1868 (Trevor was known as "Doc Trevor", the first doctor at Quesnel). Source: Laing, Frederick W; Geographical Naming Record, September 1938; unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives |