Metsantan Pass
| Feature Type: | Pass (2) - Low opening in a mountain range or hills, offering a route from one side to the other. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Between Metsantan Lake and headwaters of Toodoggone River, Cassiar Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 57°24'59"N, 127°23'06"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 94E/6 |
| Related Maps: |
94E 94E/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 17 January 1952 on Map 94E as established on B.C.L.S.’s Plan of Tie to Lots 5973-75, 1932. Named in association with Metsantan Lake. Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff, file F.1.51. |
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This is a Sekani word meaning “full belly,” and refers to good fishing at this lake. (Entry for Metsantan Lake) Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; "British Columbia Place Names"; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997, page 171. |