"Cache des Bonjours" identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Had been labelled "Cache des Beaux Jours" on BC map 5A, 1917.

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

In this location, a 300-yard portage from Driftwood to Bear Lake drainage basin is identified on map 5A, 1917.

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"On several maps this place has appeared as Cache des Beaux Jours owing to a confusion of the sounds "bons" and "beaux". I am informed by Mr. A.C. Murray (superintendent of New Caledonia 1893-97, again 1901-19, and now retired and living near Fort St. James) that supplies for the HBC post Fort Connelly were brought in small canoes carrying 300-400 lbs as far up the Driftwood [river] as this point by the Fort St. James couriers. The men from Bear's Lake met them here and the Fort St. James crews [turned] back after exchanging greetings. Hence the name - Cache des Bons Jours (sic)." ( 20 December 1923 notation by F.C. Swannell, BCLS)

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

An old voyaguer named Teegee had the habit of singing while travelling, but only had one song in his repertoire, the chorus of which had "beau jour" repeated several times; as a result he gained the nickname "Beau Jour". He used to transport freight on Driftwood Creek to Fort St. James, and would cache it at this spot until the swamps between here and Fort St. James had dried sufficiently to permit the passage of pack trains. This cache was a favourite camping place during the Ingenika gold rush (Sperry Cline, manuscript of short stories, "Policing the Skeena", p. 4)

Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions