Kwoiek Creek
Feature Type:Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river.
Status: Official
Name Authority: BC Geographical Names Office
Relative Location: Flows SE and S into Fraser River, S of Lytton, Kamloops Division Yale Land District
Latitude-Longitude: 50°06'19"N, 121°33'51"W at the approximate mouth of this feature.
Datum: WGS84
NTS Map: 92I/4
Origin Notes and History:

Adopted 6 October 1936 on 92I/W as labeled on Lands Map 2B, "New Westminster & Yale," 1914, and on Department of Interior Lytton Sectional Sheet, West of Sixth Meridian 111 (date not cited).

Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff.

May have formerly been labelled as: Quoieek Creek, Yale #33-1912, Whyeek Creek.

Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff.

According to J. Teit of Spences Bridge (1917), "Kwoiek" may mean "bored".

Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff.

"From the Thompson [Indigenous] word meaning 'gouged out,' referring to a large chunk missing from the canyon wall."

Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; "British Columbia Place Names"; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997