| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows N into Templeton River, W side of Columbia River above Spillamacheen, between Invermere and Golden, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°49'58"N, 116°19'12"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82K/16 |
| Related Maps: |
82K/10 82K/15 82K/16 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Dunbar Creek (not South Fork of Salmon River)" adopted in the 14th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1915. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Labelled "Dunbar (South Fork Salmon) River" on BC map 1EM, 1915, and on earlier maps (titles/dates not cited). Headwaters at 50 44 - 116 32 on 82K/10. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Charles Trott Dunbar, Vancouver-based land and timber speculator, who held land interests here in the 1910s. Died 15 April 1927. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Charles Trott Dunban ...rancher (pre-emptor?) around this lake.... Source: Provincial Archives' Place Names File (the "Harvey File") compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |