Black Canyon
| Feature Type: | Canyon (2) - Deep, narrow valley with precipitous walls. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Surrounding Fraser River, between Spuzzum and Boston Bar, Yale Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°44'59"N, 121°25'04"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92H/14 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 7 April 1955 on 92H/14, as labelled on Dominion sectional 11, Yale, 1913; on BC map 2B, 1914, and on BC map 1K, 1925 et seq. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Identified as The Big Cañon on "Sketch of Part of British Columbia" by Lieut. R.C. Mayne, RN, 1859. Identified as "Big Canon" on Trutch's 1871 map of British Columbia. Identified as Black Cañon on Geological Survey of Canada's "Map of a portion of the Southern Interior of British Columbia" by G.M. Dawson, 1877, located just above 16 Mile House and below Hell's Gate Rapid (sic). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |