| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Other Names: | Cameo Lake |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | E of Pennask Lake, NW of Westbank, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°58'45"N, 119°51'21"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82E/13 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Cameo Lake adopted 6 October 1936 on Geological Survey sheet 420A, Kettle River (file K.1.36). Had been labelled "Cameo (Cameron) Lake" on BC map 4N, 1930. Name changed to Cameron Lake 15 December 1982 on 82E/13, the long-standing local name. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Alastair Cameron....was the first surveyor of most of the lands and lakes on the westside (sic) of Okanagan Lake and designed many of the original dams for irrigation in this area (November 1982, February & April 1883 letters, file K.1.55) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Note spelling of given name in article entitled "Alister Cameron 1890-1970", by Sophie Cameron, published in 35th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society, 1971. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |