Peter Hope Lake
| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Expansion of Peter Hope Creek, NE of Nicola Lake, S of Kamloops, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°17'40"N, 120°19'00"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92I/8 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Peterhope Lake adopted 7 April 1949 on 92 I/SE as labelled on BC Lands' map 1EM, 1915. Form of name changed to Peter Hope Lake 31 May 1982 on 92 I/8. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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Named in association with creek of the same name: "Peterhope Creek" identified in Water Rights file #56-9-8, dated 5 July 1893. [WR file since renumbered as 0241702.] Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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Refers to prospector Peter Hope, who came to the interior in 1863; his Nicola property L708 was surveyed in 1889. Source: Lean, Pat; Nicola Valley Place Names; unpublished manuscript, 1993 |