| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows NW into Beaton Arm Upper Arrow Lake, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°44'13"N, 117°43'50"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82K/12 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 4 October 1951 on Columbia River Basin manuscript 21; had been labelled "Beaton (Salmon) Creek" on BC map 1EM, 1915. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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BC name card also identifies "Staubert" and "Thomson" as early or other names for Beaton Creek (map/document titles or dates not cited) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Malcolm (?) Beaton was one of the first settlers on the east arm of the Arrow Lakes, and from whom the name of the settlement and the creek was derived." [Note that Laing was not sure of Beaton's given name; various pre-WW II sources suggested that Thomas was his given name.] Source: Laing, Frederick W; Geographical Naming Record, September 1938; unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives |