Hester Creek
| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows E into Okanagan River, between Osoyoos and Oliver, S of Penticton, Similkameen Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°07'59"N, 119°35'04"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82E/4 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 7 October 1954 on 82E/SW. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Named c1893 by Emily Josephine (Pittendrigh) Haynes, wife of John Carmichael Haynes, after their daughter Hester Emily, born at Osoyoos 25 April 1877; married Charles Anderson Richardson Lambly in 1897; widowed in 1907, afterwards married Dr. Reginald Brant White of Penticton." (12th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society, 1948, citing information provided by Hester White). See also Lambly Creek, Haynes Creek. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |