Sorcerer Creek
| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows W into Downie Creek, E side Lake Revelstoke, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°28'37"N, 118°11'29"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82M/8 |
| Related Maps: |
82M/8 82M/9 82N/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Sorcerer Creek adopted 12 December 1939 on BC map 5D, Revelstoke-Golden, in association with the glacier & mountain at its head, not North Fork Downie Creek as had been labelled on "Reconnaisance map of the Northern Selkirk Mountains and the Big Bend Area of the Columbia River", by Palmer and Chapman, 1915. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Headwaters at 51 26 - 117 57 on 82N/5. Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |