| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows N into Holmes River, E of McBride, Cariboo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 53°20'21"N, 119°43'39"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 83E/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Abrams Creek adopted 2 March 2010 on 83E/5, as required for a water licence for Independent Power Production (WR file 7001804). Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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The water licence applicant, William F. (Duke) Peterson / Holmes Hydro Inc, suggested that the creek be named "Judy Creek" after his daughter; rejected in favour of Abrams Creek, a name chosen to recall Ted Abrams, a Tete Jaune trapper from the years just before WW I who participated in the McBride trappers' exchange for many years. References and photo of Abrams in The Robson Valley Story by Marilyn Wheeler; Sternwheeler Press, McBride, 2008; pp 18, 228, 252, 360. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |