Sinclair Lake
| Feature Type: | Reach - Relatively straight section of a river, lake, or inlet. |
| Status: | Not official |
| Other Names: | Whitesail River, Whitesail ReachOfficial |
| Relative Location: | SW of Ootsa Lake at NW side of Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, Range 4 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 53°41'49"N, 126°43'20"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 93E/10 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Sinclair Lake (not Long Lake)" adopted in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924; an expansion of Whitesail River. This discrete lake and river portion were flooded behind the Kenney Dam, and both were renamed Whitesail Reach 1 March 1956 on 93E. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Sinclair Lake was named by Fr. A.G. Morice, and so-labelled on his 1907 map, although the lake was well-known to residents around the Ootsa Lake settlement as "Long Lake" (Ottawa file OBF0662). Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |