| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Other Names: | Gravel Creek |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows E into North Thompson River, between Blue River (community) and Valemount, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 52°22'47"N, 119°10'29"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 83D/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Gravel Creek adopted in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Name changed to Chappel Creek 29 January 1962 on 83D/6, as had been submitted by BC in January 1944, to avoid duplication (file M.1.60). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Labelled Gravel Creek as on 1911 survey plan (Field Book 3216/11, ph 17), and on BC map 3J, 1917; labelled Pleasant Stream on CNR plan, 1912. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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(Re)named Chappel Creek 25 January 1944 by F.C. Green, Surveyor-General of BC, after B.T. Chappell, superintendant of various western districts for Canadian National Railways. He started his railway career as news agent at Charlottetown on ICR in 1892; supervised the construction of the CNR line into Vancouver; appointed superintendant of Mountain Division, CNR, 1915; retired in 1942 as General Superintendant of Manitoba District with headquarters at Winnipeg. January 1944 letter from B.T. Chappell (file M.1.60). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Headwaters at 52 21 - 119 18. Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |