Adopted 10 May 1955 on 104J/4.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

Named after Captain T. Harper Reed, long time resident of the area, and one-time Indian agent at Telegraph Creek.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

"When Doug Roy was extending 'topo control' for mapshets surrounding Altin Lake in 1952, he discovered T.F. Harper Reed, an oldtimer there, who operated a motor launch from his own wharf on Atlin's waterfront. Doug hired Reed's services on occasion to move his crews over the big lake, and found that Reed was well versed in surveyor's language and needs, having served on the Alaska boundary survey from the Stikine in 1904 to the Arctic terminus of the 141st Meridian in 1912. After serving overseas with the RCE and attaining the rank of Captain in World War I, Reed returned to Stikine and after a few years prospecting, became Indian Agent at Telegraph Creek, until his retirement to Altin in 1943. He probably knew the huge Cassiar district by dog team and river travel as well as anyone, and is quoted by R.M. Patterson in "Trail to the Interior". It was Reed who alerted the Dominion government to the situation at the head of Tarr Inlet in the late 1920's when the Grand Pacific Glacier receded sufficiently to allow tidewater to penetrate across the boundary into BC. After his decease in Victoria, 1965... [his papers were deposited] in the Provincial Archives." (G.S. Andrews, MBE, Professional Land Surveyors of British Columbia, Cumulative Norminal Roll, 4th edition, 1978, p.xiii)

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

Headwaters at 58 03 - 131 54.

Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa