| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Just E of Salmon Arm Shuswap Lake, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°46'58"N, 119°00'43"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/14 |
| Related Maps: |
82L/11 82L/14 82L/15 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Mara Lake was adopted in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924; confirmed 3 November 1932 on 82L/NW. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"After J.A. Mara, MP for Kamloops, interested in early Arrow Lakes navigation and part owner of Nakusp townsite, and with whom the late F.W. Jordan was associated early in commerce." (Arrow Lakes News, 29 June 1967; clipping provided by Innes Cooper, Slocan historian). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After John Andrew Mara, an Overlander of '62; born at Toronto; had store at Seymour on Shuswap Lake in 1865, later at Kamloops; merchant, miller, steamship operator, promoter of Kootenay Steam Navigation Company and Shuswap & Okanagan Railway (CPR, Sicamous-Okanagan Lake), MLA, 1871 - 86 (Speaker, 1883 - 86); MP, 1887 - 96. Retired to Victoria, where he died February 11, 1920, aged 79. (12th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society, 1948, citing Gosnell, 346; Wade, 164) Also Mara Hill on north side of Kamloops Lake. Source: included with note |