| Feature Type: | Locality - A named place or area, generally with a scattered population of 50 or less. |
| Status: | Not official |
| Other Names: | Port DouglasOfficial |
| Relative Location: | E side Lillooet River, just N of N end Harrison Lake, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°45'59"N, 122°10'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/16 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Douglas (settlement) labelled on Trutch's 1871 map of British Columbia & BC map 2B, 1914; "Douglas (abandoned mining settlement)" identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Douglas (settlement) adopted 3 April 1950 on 92 G. Name changed to Port Douglas (community) 25 September 1980 on 92 G/16, as labelled on Gust. Epner's 1862 Map of the Gold Regions of BC. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Settlement at head of Little Harrison Lake, 1858-1870, and the starting point for the upper Fraser goldfields via Lillooet, Anderson and Seton Lakes (the first route to the Cariboo, 1858); named after James Douglas (1803-1877), governor of British Columbia. Douglas Post Office was opened 19 August 1859, W.H. Franklyn postmaster; post office was closed before April 1867. Source: Provincial Archives' Place Names File (the "Harvey File") compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |