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.
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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.
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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.
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"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
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