| Feature Type: | District Municipality (1) - A populated place with legally defined boundaries, incorporated as a district municipality under the provincial Municipal Act. |
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Not official
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| Relative Location: | Adjacent to Fraser River, between Lytton and Clinton, Lillooet Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°41'37"N, 121°56'01"W at the approximate location of the Municipal Hall. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92I/12 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Originally called Cayoosh Flat, which name [was] changed in 1859 to Lillooet because the trail by Lillooet lake and river here joined the Fraser River". (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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"...the Governor desires that the town sometimes known as Kayoosh [sic] should be known by its original Indian name of Lillooet...." (19 June 1861 letter from Colonel Moody, RE, to Commissioner of Lands; PABC accession C/AB/30.7/2.) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Earlier known as Cayoosh Flat because the body of a dead cayuse (Indian pony) was found in the river here." 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 |