| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows W into NE side Slocan Lake at New Denver, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°59'18"N, 117°22'47"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82F/14 |
| Related Maps: |
82F/14 82K/3 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in the 15th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1917, as labelled on William Thomlinson's Sketch Map of the Slocan Lake District, March 1896, and as identified in BC mines reports, and as labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915, etc. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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That portion of the watercourse labelled "South Fork Carpenter Creek" on early maps is now understood to the headwaters. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Eli Carpenter, a miner here c1891 (information provided to Bureau of Mines 24 September 1925 by Mrs. John Keen, Kaslo) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Eli Carpenter, prospector, who discovered the famous Payne Mine near Sandon in 1891; formerly a circus tight-rope walker. Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |