Adopted 8 July 1948 on Hydrographic Services Chart #3734, as established in the BC Pilot Volume II, 1923.

Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff, file H.1.26.

Tenas was the word for “small” or “few” in the Chinook jargon used on the west coast by First Nation groups and early traders and settlers. There are numerous other features named Tenas in BC, including two creeks, a hill, a lake, a peak, a narrows (on Little Lillooet Lake) and the Tenas Tikke Glacier N of Tarr Inlet.

Source: Scott, Andrew; "The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names"; Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, 2009. page 586.