Noted in Geographic Board of Canada files 2 April 1930 (February and April 1930 letters on file F.2.34). Adopted 12 December 1939 with all other names for map 92F/11. Confirmed 7 October 1948 on 92F/11.

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Named at the 1929 opening of the Dove Creek Trail into the Forbidden Plateau, as recommended by Courtenay City Council, after Julian I. Piggott, intended husband of Helen Maud Hutton Mackenzie, Chatelaine for her uncle, His Honour Robert Randolph Bruce, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia. Mr. Piggott was the youngest son of the late Sir Francis and Lady Piggott, of Greenmeadows, Cowes, Isle of Wight; he first came to Canada in the winter of 1928-29 with Mr. Corder, on behalf of the steel trade, and was appointed manager of the newly founded British Steel Export Association. Piggott and Miss Mackenzie left Victoria 14 February 1930, to marry in England. No indication in BC names files that they returned to British Columbia. See related article in Victoria Colonist 2 February 1930 (copy not in BC names files.) See also Lake Helen Mackenzie.

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