| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows NE into Similkameen River, S of Princeton, Yale Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°22'08"N, 120°33'29"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92H/7 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924, as labelled on GSC map "Southern Interior of British Columbia" published in 1888. Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |
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"Early gold-hunters, needing lumber out of which to build sluice-boxes and flumes, whipsawed their lumber in sawpits close to this stream. In this primitive method of sawing, a log was rolled onto two skids over a pit. One man stood on top of the log, and another down in the pit and they pulled the saw up and down. Progress was slow - 100 feet board measure was a good day's work." Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; "1001 British Columbia Place Names"; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973. |