| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows NW into Fortune Creek, NE of Armstrong, N of Vernon, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°27'59"N, 119°09'04"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Kendry Creek adopted 7 February 1951 on 82L/SW, as originally submitted to Geographic Board by BC in December 1921, and as labelled on BC map 4J, 1921. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Kendry Creek (not Christian Creek)" identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Kendry, first water recorder on this creek." (December 1921 notation on BC name card). "This has been known as Kendry for 45 years or more, in spite of being named after McKendry. No complaints of suggestions that it be changed." (February 1966 notation on BC name card) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"William McKendry got water diversion rights for Lot 989, 21 August 1906." (12th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society, 1948, citing advice from Comptroller of Water Rights). Source: included with note |