| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Expansion of Eagle River below Three Valley Lake, between Revelstoke and Sicamous, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°57'50"N, 118°30'25"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/15 |
| Related Maps: |
82L/15 82L/16 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 30 September 1932 on 82L/NE, as labelled on Geological Survey of Canada's preliminary edition of Map of a portion of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, published in 1887 from explorations made in 1877 by G.M.Dawson, and in 1882-4 by Amos Bowman; as labelled on BC Lands' Map of Eastern Part of British Columbia, 1888, and on Geological Survey sheet 669, Shuswap, 1898, and on BC Lands' map 1EM, 1915, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Origin/significance not recorded. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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Reportedly labelled on "Map of Part of the Canadian Pacific Railway Shewing Dominion Lands in British Columbia" published in 1885 by Dept. of Interior. [this map is not in BC Geographical Names collection, so notation cannot be verified - - anyone? ] Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |