Canim Lake
| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W of Mahood Lake, NE of 100 Mile House, Lillooet Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°51'45"N, 120°46'00"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92P/15 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 28 April 1936 on Ottawa file OBF 1484, as labelled on BC map 1G, 1916 et seq. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Can-aim, a canoe; cooley canaim, canoe race; haul canaim, pull up the canoe; kokshut canaim, the canoe is split; canaim stick, cedar wood. (T.N. Hibben Co's Chinook Jargon Dictionary, 1931.) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Canim is the Shuswap version of the Chinook word meaning "canoe" (Helen Manning, Place Names in the Cariboo) Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |