Gardom Lake
| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W side of Shuswap River, NW of Enderby, N of Vernon, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°36'13"N, 119°11'59"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 3 November 1932 on 82L/NW, as originally submitted to the Geographic Board 13 December 1921 by BC Geographic Branch, and as labelled on BC map 4J, 1921. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Previously been labelled "A Lake" on Reference Map 92 (date/title not cited) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Named after John Williams Gardom, settler, 1893; born in England 8 March 1845; afterwards lived at Victoria; died at Victoria 26 July 1922." (12th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society, 1948, citing Basil Gardom.) Source: included with note |