Campment des Femmes
| Feature Type: | Camp - A place where tents or buildings serve as temporary residences |
| Status: | Not official |
| Relative Location: | Just E of Tulameen near junction of Cook Creek and Tulameen River, NW of Princeton, Yale Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°32'09"N, 120°44'04"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92H/10 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Correct spelling was Campement des Femmes; mis-spelled "Campment des Femmes" or "Camp Femmes" on "Map of a portion of British Columbia / compiled from the surveys & explorations of the Royal Navy & Royal Engineers, at the camp, New Westminster 24 November 1859", and on Epner's 1862 Map of the Gold Regions of British Columbia, and on Trutch's 1871 map of British Columbia, and on G.M. Dawson's 1877 map of Portion of the Southern Interior of British Columbia. See "Campement des Femmes" for additional information. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |