Duckworth Lake
| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Expansion of McLeese Creek between Soda Creek (community) and McLeese Lake, N of Williams Lake (city), Cariboo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 52°22'34"N, 122°16'30"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 93B/8 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 28 April 1936 on Ottawa file 1484, as labelled on BC map 3B, 1919 & 1935, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"A transient called Duckworth had a cabin on this lake, at the time of survey." (Helen C. Manning, Place Names in the Cariboo, UBC Thesis, 1943) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |