Dugan Lake
| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | NE. of Williams Lake, Cariboo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 52°10'12"N, 121°54'17"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 93A/4 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 28 April 1936 on BC map 3G, as labelled on BC map 1G, 1916, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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"Mike Dugan, an Englishman, and his son pre-empted land at the north end of this lake about 1910-12." (Place Names in the Cariboo by Helen C. Manning; 1943 thesis on file at UBC). According to c1942-43 advice from Miss A.L. Crosina, 153 Mile Store, Dugan died "about a year ago" in Williams Lake hospital. Source: Provincial Archives' Place Names File (the "Harvey File") compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |