Sicamous Narrows
Language of origin Salishan language family Secwepemctsín language
Feature Type:Narrows - Constricted section of a water body.
Status: Official
Name Authority: BC Geographical Names Office
Relative Location: Between Shuswap Lake and Mara Lake, Kamloops Division Yale Land District
Tags: Indigenous
Latitude-Longitude: 50°49'49"N, 118°59'30"W at the approximate centre of this feature.
Datum: WGS84
NTS Map: 82L/15
Origin Notes and History:

Sicamous Narrows was adopted 3 November 1932 on 82L/NW. Confirmed 14 October 1988 on 82L/14 and 82L/15, but applied only to 82L/15.

Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa

Means "place cut through" in Secwepemc (Shuswap) language referring to the narrows between Shuswap and Mara Lakes.
Labelled Schikmouse Narrows on Walter Moberley's 1866 map; labelled Schickmous Narrows on Trutch's 1871 map; identified as Shick-a-mows Narrows, meaning "in the middle", by G.M. Dawson, Geological Survey Report 1877-78, p.27B.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

Other translations of Sicamous [include] "fishing place"

Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; British Columbia Place Names; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997