| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | NE of Vernon, Osoyoos Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°34'59"N, 118°43'40"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/10 |
| Related Maps: |
82L/10 82L/7 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named by Charles E. Perry, CPR survey engineer in the 1870s, after Mabel Hope Charles, eldest child of William Charles, HBC manager, Victoria; until 1874 at Fort Kamloops; earlier at Fort Hope, where Mabel was born July 31, 1860. In 1884 she married David MacEwen Eberts, Victoria lawyer, afterwards judge, BC Court of Appeal; she died December 8, 1931; he died May 20, 1924. (12th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society, 1948, citing Charles W. Holliday; Mrs. Phyllis Adams; both of Victoria). Source: included with note |
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See Toronto Library, reference 5971.142 and .044. Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |