Adopted 3 November 1932 on 82L/NW, at 50° 45' - 119° 17' as labelled on Dominion Sectional sheet 112, Sicamous, 1912. Application altered 6 May 1954 on 82L/NW to the location about 1 mile south, as shown on Geological Survey sheet 669A, Shuswap, 1898.

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

"...camped rather early, being Sunday, on a sandy point on the west side of the enlargement at the south end of the Salmon R. Arm, which I propose to call Mallard Point, as here, during the evening I shot ...[?]... five mallard ducks..." (George M. Dawson's personal diary, 5 August 1877, while conducting exploration and surveys of Shuswap Lake area for Geological Survey of Canada), also "...completed examination of W. shore of Salmon Arm... Stopped for lunch at Mallard Point, the same point at which I camped in 1877 & which I then so named..." (Dawson's personal diary, 19 September 1894). Diary entries located and typescripts provided by G.B. Leech, Director (retired), Economic Geology Division, Geological Survey of Canada.

Source: included with note

Labelled "Edwards Point" on map of Salmon Arm District, 1960.

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