"Kathlyn Lake (not Chicken Lake)" adopted in the 11th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 30 June 1912. Re-approved 6 October 1936 on Geological Survey sheet 368A, Smithers, as labelled on BC map 3D, 1922 et seq, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

Labelled "Boiling Lake" on 1907 sketch map of Bulkley River (plan 58B1); origin/significance not recorded. "Lake Kathlyn (station)" and "Chickens Lake" are labelled on BC map #38, Bulkley (later map 3D), 1913.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

Named in 1912, after Kathlyn, daughter of W.P. Hinton, then-vice president and general manager of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. [note: Evelyn Station was named after Hinton's other daughter.]

Source: 15th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1917 (supplement to the Annual Report of the Dept of the Interior, 1917, Ottawa)

"This beautiful lake near Smithers was formerly called Chicken's Lake after an old Indian, nicknamed Chicken because he always called the grouse which he hunted and sold to the first settlers "chickens". When the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was built, its photographers took pictures of this beauty spot for use in advertising pamphlets. Obviously the name Chicken's Lake ".... was far too inelegant", so it was renamed after Kathlyn, daughter of W.P. Hinton, vice-president and general manager of the railway."

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