Monte Creek
| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows NW into South Thompson River at Monte Lake (community), SE of Kamloops, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°39'11"N, 119°57'38"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/12 |
| Related Maps: |
82L/12 82L/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in the 14th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1915, as labelled on Geological Survey map 604, Shuswap, 1898, and on BC map 1EM, 1915, etc. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Name may have been derived from Rivière de la Monté Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |
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Headwaters channel labelled "Pearse Creek" on Geological Survey sheet 604, Shuswap, 1898. Origin/significance not recorded. [note that at one time a small provincial park near here was called Pearse Park, transferred to local government administration in 1981.] Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |