| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | S of W end of Ootsa Lake, Nechako Reservoir, Range 4 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 53°17'24"N, 126°40'04"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 93E/7 |
| Related Maps: |
93E/1 93E/2 93E/7 93E/8 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 10 January 1922 on Ottawa file OBF 0662, as labelled on BC Lands' map 1A, 1912. Re-approved 13 March 1947 on 93/SW. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Eutsuk is the local name, probably a corruption of Te-oots-a-bungut, the name provided to Frank Swannell, BCLS, by Chief Louis of the Cheslattas in 1910. Other names and spelling variations include Big Ootsa, Te-ootsa-bungut, Tatchetkin... Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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From the Carrier name Etê'-auh Yootsoo, "way off Yootsoo" or "farthest Yootsoo" referring to the lake's connection with Ootsa lake. (Morice, Fifty Years in Western Canada) 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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About 1876 Horetzky, CPR engineer, made a reconnaissance up the Kimsquit (or as he called it, Tchatsquot) River and across to Eutsuk Lake via Smaby Pass. He calls Eutsuk Lake "Talchelkin", possibly a name given him by Coast [First Nations] of his party. The Interior [First Nations] do not know it by this name. Horetsky's altitude is 2802 feet. (note on BC name card, written 3 November 1921 by F. Swannell, BCLS) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"According to Father Morice (the first white man to see this lake), his [First Nations] companions named it after him. The authorities in Victoria refused to accept Morice's 'Morice Lake' and renamed it 'Eutsuk' from two [Indigenous] words,"yu" (very) and "tsu" (low down)." Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; 1001 British Columbia Place Names; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973. |
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See "Will to Power" by David Mulhall, for one version of how Father Morice named this Morice Lake [pp.110-111]. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |