Glenora
| Feature Type: | Locality - A named place or area, generally with a scattered population of 50 or less. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | N side of Stikine River, just SW of Telegraph Creek (community), Cassiar Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 57°50'36"N, 131°23'18"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 104G/14 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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This place name in the Cassiar goldfields is said to have been compounded out of the Gaelic "glenn" (valley) and the Spanish "ora" (gold), producing "The Valley of Gold." Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; 1001 British Columbia Place Names; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973. |