| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | S of junction of Yoho and Little Yoho Rivers, NE of Golden in Yoho National Park, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°31'24"N, 116°30'05"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82N/10 |
| Related Maps: |
82N/10 82N/9 |
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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 originally suggested in 1901, and as labelled on BC-Alberta boundary sheet 16, published in 1917 from surveys in 1903 & 1906. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"After E.J. Duchesnay, CE, Assistant General Superintendant, Canadian Pacific Railway; killed in a tunnel near Spuzzum, 1901." Source: 15th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1917 (supplement to the Annual Report of the Dept of the Interior, 1917, Ottawa) |
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After Edmond Juchereau Duchesnay, assistant general superintendent, CPR; killed by a falling rock in a tunnel near Spuzzum, 4 September 1901, age 45. See "The Duchesnay Story" by D.A.McGregor, published in the Vancouver Province, 8 January 1953. Source: Provincial Archives' Place Names File (the "Harvey File") compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |