| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows SE. into Okanagan Lake, NW. of Kelowna, Osoyoos Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°55'31"N, 119°30'33"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82E/13 |
| Related Maps: |
82E/13 82L/4 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Decision in 18th Report. Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |
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"Called Bear River in 1833 by David Douglas of fir tree fame. (BCHQ 4:242). "R. a la Ours" (Bear River) on Anderson Map, 1867; "Bears R." on Trutch Map, 1871; and still commonly called Bear Creek. Changed to Lambly Creek by Geographic Board of Canada in 1922, after Charles Anderson Richardson Lambly, pre-emptor of lot 220, near Peachland, 1 March 1887; previously on CPR survey; government agent at Rock Creek and Camp McKinney; also at Osoyoos, 1892-98, and at Fairview until his death, 29 January 1907; survived by his widow Hester Haynes, daughter of John Carmichael Haynes, and brothers Robert and Thomas McKie Lambly, Enderby pioneers, 1876-77." (12th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society, 1948, citing their 6th Report, information from BC Chief Geographer, and Hester White) Source: included with note |