Baynes Lake
| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | E side Lake Koocanusa above mouth of Elk River, SW of Fernie, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°14'01"N, 115°13'27"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82G/3 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 2 December 1948 on Columbia River Basin manuscript 51, as labelled on BC map 4D, Fernie, 1913, and as listed in 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 Andrew Bain, who located land on the lake in 1896" (James White, Place-names in the Rocky mountains, published in Transactions, Royal Society of Canada, Sec III, Vol 10, March 1917, p.508). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |