| Language of origin | English language |
| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows W and N into Thompson River, just above Ashcroft, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°44'38"N, 121°13'33"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92I/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 7 June 1927 on BC map 4M, as labelled on Dominion sectional sheet 111, Kamloops, 1916; not Achcroft Creek as identified on an early water licence, nor McCallum Creek nor Pennies Creek as identified on early maps (dates/titles 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 John Christopher Barnes, who pre-empted land in March 1868; by the purchase of the rights of other settlers, and by application to purchase from the Crown, he increased his holdings to 790 acres in the vicinity of Ashcroft townsite. Also Barnes Lake. Source: Laing, Frederick W; Geographical Naming Record, September 1938; unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives |
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Barnes settled on the bench above modern Ashcroft in the late 1860's. He became a leading light of the Interior Agricultural Association of the 1890's. Source: Place Names of the Kamloops District; Kamloops Museum, 1978 |