| Feature Type: | Community - An unincorporated populated place, generally with a population of 50 or more, and having a recognized central area that might contain a post office, store and/or community hall, etc, intended for the use of the general public in the region. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | E side lake Koocanusa, above mouth of Elk River, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°13'59"N, 115°13'03"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82G/3 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Baynes Lake (Post Office) adopted 12 December 1939, as labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915, and as identified in 1930 BC Gazetteer; confirmed 2 December 1948 on Columbia River Basin manuscript # 51; form of name changed to Baynes Lake (community) 4 August 1981. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Baynes Lake Post Office opened 1 June 1904. GNR railway station "Baynes" is labelled on BC map 4D, Fernie, 1913. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"...after Andrew Bain [sic], who located land beside this lake in 1896." (James White, Place-names in the Rocky Mountains, published in Transactions, Royal Society of Canada, Sec III, Vol 10, March 1917, p.508) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after James Bayne, an Englishman (Post Office Survey, 1905). [Note that there is no letter re: Bayne/Baynes in British Columbia's copy of the Post Office Survey (1905 letters from Postmasters).] Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |