| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Just N of ḵalpilin (harbour) at N end of Sechelt Peninsula, NE of Vancouver, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°40'23"N, 124°01'03"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92F/9 |
| Related Maps: |
92F/9 92G/12 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Sakinaw Lake adopted 6 May 1924 on Ottawa file OBF 0836, as labelled on BC Reference map 5A (date not cited), and on BC map 20, 1912, and on BC map 2D, 1923. Re-approved 2 November 1950 on 92F. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Identified as "Saginaw Lake" on early map (title/date not cited); identified as "Sauch-en-auch Lake" in September 1927 federal Fisheries Department report. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"From the Sechelt ... word for 'neck' - perhaps referring to the narrow neck of land between the end of the lake and the sea." Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; British Columbia Place Names; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997 |