| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W side of Hwy 37 between Meziadin and Dease Lakes, Cassiar Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 56°58'12"N, 130°16'00"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 104B/16 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Quinn Lake adopted in the 1930 BC Gazetteer, as labelled on BC map 5C, 1929, and on 1928 plan 16T293 by P. Monckton, BCLS. Name changed to Bobquinn Lake 5 February 1945 on 104SE; form of name changed to Bob Quinn Lake 13 June 1954 on 104B/16. Bob Quinn Lake confirmed 20 January 1955 on 104B. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Robert Quinn of Echo Lake, an area old timer, and one-time lineman on the Yukon Telegraph Line. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"At Echo Lake a large garden has been cultivated for many years with great success. Bob Quin [sic], the lineman here, informs me....that this area is the first to be free from the winters' snow." (Extract from the report of J. Davidson, BCLS, 1927, published in Abstracts from Reports of Surveys made by Land Surveyors to the Department of Lands, Cassiar Dist, p.187). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |