Racine Creek
| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows E into Taku Arm Tagish Lake, NW of Atlin, Cassiar Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 59°49'20"N, 134°18'27"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 104M/16 |
| Related Maps: |
104M/10 104M/15 104M/16 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 2 October 1923 on Ottawa file OBF 0002, as labelled on Geological Survey sheet 94A, 1913. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after F.W. Racine, boatbuilder at Bennett, 1900. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"....after a pioneer saw-mill man of this district, who had a mill in the vicinity." (6 April 1911 letter from A.H. Whitcher, GBC, to Fleet Robertson, provincial mineralogist.) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Headwaters at 5941 - 134 47. Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |