Eva Lake
| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | N. of junction of Columbia and Illecillewaet Rivers, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°04'53"N, 118°06'31"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82M/1 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 5 October 1960 on 92M/1 as an established local name. Origin/significance not recorded. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"After Eva Hobbs, an enthusiastic member of the Revelstoke Mountaineering Club in the years before the First World War." (Vancouver Sun, 20 October 1992, p.C2) Source: included with note |