| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Expansion of Eagle River near headwaters, W side of Eagle Pass between Revelstoke and Sicamous, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°57'27"N, 118°23'46"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/16 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 30 September 1932 on 82L/NE, as labelled on Geological Survey sheet 669, Shuswap, 1898, and on BC Lands' map 1EM, 1915. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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Reportedly labelled on "Map of Part of the Canadian Pacific Railway Shewing Dominion Lands in British Columbia" published in 1885 by Dept. of Interior. [this map is not in BC Geographical Names collection, so notation cannot be verified - - anyone? ] Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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Possibly named after Victor, one of two Indians accompanying Walter Moberly in 1865 when the latter discovered Eagle Pass. (derived from notation in F.V.Longstaff's biographical sketch about Walter Moberly and discovery of Eagle Pass; see "Eagle Pass" for quotation.) Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |