| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows S from Pinkerton Lake into Haggen Creek, N of Wells, Cariboo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 53°34'40"N, 121°35'00"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 93H/12 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 1 September 1960 as an established local name, and as labelled on BC Lands' map 1G,1959. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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Note that another watercourse, flowing northwest into Bowron River, was labelled "Pinkerton (Spruce) Creek" on BC Lands's map 3A, 1915, 1921 & 1944 editions - presumably the stream had been understood to drain Pinkerton Lake. The stream tributary to Bowron River has since been adopted as Spruce Creek, and the name "Pinkerton Creek" has been applied to the stream that drains Pinkerton Lake into Haggen Creek. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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Another Pinkerton Creek less than 60km south of here, tributary to Jack of Clubs Creek near Barkerville. That creek was named after John Pinkerton, one of the Overlanders of 1862, who partnered with Thaddeus Harper in mining claim(s) in the Cariboo - possibly the same namesake. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |