Deadman Creek adopted in the 1930 BC Gazetteer, as labelled on BC map 2A, Southern Vancouver Island, 1913 & 1920. Name changed to Craigflower Creek 27 September 1932 (file S.2.38). See Craigflower (former Post Office) for origin information.

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Labelled "Deadman River" on J.D. Pemberton's 1855 map of the Southern Districts of Vancouver Island, prepared for the Hudson's Bay Company; spelled "Deadman's River" on 1895, 1911 & 1912 editions of BC Lands Map of the Southeastern Districts of Vancouver Island, and on Hibben & Co's 1913 street map of Victoria, and on Geological Survey's 1915 map, 20A, Victoria, and on Department of National Defence sheet 241b, Victoria, 1925. Origin/anecdote not recorded.

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"...there is a desire to perpetuate the name Craigflower rather than the gruesome one of Deadman..." ( 9 October 1930 letter from BC Rep to Geographic Board of Canada, in turn relaying the wishes of Hon. R.H. Pooley, Attorney General, in his 24 September 1930 letter to P. Phillip, Deputy Minister Public Works.)

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"Its earliest name seems to have been Pulkwutsang, indicating the stream was haunted by a ghost or that it was the 'place of ghost'..." (excerpt from The Gorge: a short tour of the skookum chuck, by Charles Lillard, Victoria Times-Colonist, 21 February 1988, p.M1)

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The portion of this creek above Pike Lake has been incorrectly identified as Munns Creek on c1980 Water Rights plans.

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