Ealue Lake adopted in the 14th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1915; not "Ehalleuh Lake" as spelled on BC Lands' map 1H, 1917, nor Eahlueh, not Ehalueh.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

"Every vowel in the name is pronounced separately....ee-ah-loo-ay" (15th Report, Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1917), however Gov't Agent, Dease Lake, advised in 1994 that the established mis-pronunciation now is EE-loo.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

This is a Tahltan word meaning "sky" according to the Catholic Priest, Telegraph Creek, 1951 (file S.3.52) [Tolmie & Dawson's Comparative Indian Vocabularies lists Ya-za as the Tahltan word for sky.]

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

This is a Tahltan word meaning "high-up fish" - this is a good fishing lake at the height of the watershed.

Source: Tolmie, W.F. & Dawson, G.M; Comparative Vocabularies of the Indian Tribes of British Columbia; Geological & Natural History Survey of Canada, 1884

From the Indian word: ee-ah-lu-ee, meaning "small fish" (advice from P.M. Monckton, BCLS)

Source: Provincial Archives' Place Names File (the "Harvey File") compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions