| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | N of Norrish Creek, NE of Mission (municipality) between Stave Lake and Chehalis River, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°19'08"N, 122°05'45"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/8 |
| Related Maps: |
92G 92G/8 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 3 May 1951 on 92G, as labelled on BC map 4P, 1931 & 1946. Also Dickson Creek. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Mis-spelled "Dixon" on BC map 5B, 1929. "Dixon Lake at head of Dixon Creek..." mis-spelled 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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After John Nesbitt Dickson, a chainman with W.S. McElhanney's survey crew in 1910. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Named by W.G. McElhanney, BCLS, after John Nesbitt Dickson, Vancouver, chainman on survey of the area c1910; afterwards a steel worker; in 1948 a carpenter at Englewood." Source: Provincial Archives' Place Names File (the "Harvey File") compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |