| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | E of Lost Dog Canyon, NE of Kimberley, N of Cranbrook, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°44'48"N, 115°49'32"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82G/12 |
| Related Maps: |
82G/12 82G/13 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Hahas Lake adopted 2 November 1926, not "Lazy Lake" as labelled on earlier maps (Geological Survey sheet 147A, 1915?). Hahas Lake re-approved 4 October 1932 on Geological Survey sheet 297A, Cranbrook. Re-approved 6 January 1949 on Columbia River Basin manuscript 57. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Formerly named Lazy Lake but changed because of duplication..." Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |
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Hahas is Kootenay for "skunk" (Franz Boas (1918), Kootenai Tales, Bureau of American Ethnology, bulletin 59, p.378) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Stevens Lake" identified on BC name card as another name (map/document title or date not cited). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Hahas Lake is commonly known as Stoney Lake." (Kootenay Ripples, Wasa Historical Society, 2002, p.478; as located by historian Greg Nesteroff, Castlegar.) Source: included with note |