Adopted 1 April 1924 as recommended by BC Geographic Division.

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Previously identified as "NE Fork Goldstream River" (map title/date not cited)

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Named to remember Ormond Montgomery Stitt, MC, DLS, BCLS, killed in action at the Battle of Amiens. Commissioned as a BC Land Surveyor in 1911; serving as a Captain, 1st Army Troops Company, Canadian Engineers when he was killed in action 16 August 1918, age 34. Buried at Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Somme, France, grave VIA- A- I. Survived by his parents Samuel and Mary Stitt, of Ottawa.

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Born 15 June 1883 at Ottawa, where he received his early education. Graduated from McGill University in 1908 and later was admitted as a Dominion Land Surveyor and also as a British Columbia Land Surveyor. During his Collegiate and University career he was prominintly identified with athletics, having been Captain of the McGill Intermediate Football Tean in 1905 and played on the senior team in 1906 and 1907. He was also well known in Ottawa as a canoeist. He was for some time in charge of work on the Geodetic Survey of Canada, under the late Dr. King, CMG. Prior to enlisting in the fall of 1915, he was engaged in surveys in the Peace River Block of British Columbia. He proceeded oversees in the early spring of 1916, as a Lieutenant in the Canadian Engineers. He was awarded the Military Cross for outstanding work in connection with water supply, during the operations of 1917. He was killed in action in August 1918, at Rosieres, while engaged in the development of the water supply in the captured areas, during the early period of the advance which terminated with the Armistice. ("Roll of Honour 1914 - 1918", Corporation of Land Surveyors of the Province of British Columbia; includes photo of Captain Stitt. ) Career biography in BC Land Surveyor's annual report, 1919.

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"O.M. Stitt was the only son of Samuel Stitt (1848-1920) and Mary Ellen Thompson (1947-1926). The parents owned and operated a coal business in Ottawa during this time. There were two daughters who carried on the business after the death of their father, with the assistance of a very capable yard man. A McGill scholarship was created by the father's estate in his son's memory. Samuel Stitt was the brother of my great grand father, James Stitt (1850-1914) who migrated to Manitoba about 1880 with his youngest brother Joseph Jackson Stitt (1861-1942)." (information provided November 2002 by Gerald R. Brown, Winnipeg)

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