Motherlode Creek
| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows SE into Boundary Creek at Greenwood, Similkameen Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°04'50"N, 118°40'58"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82E/2 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Motherlode Creek adopted 3 April 1959 on 82E/SE as an established local name and as labelled on BC map 4K, 1923; not "Copper Creek" as labelled on Geological Survey sheet 834, Boundary Creek Mining District, c1905. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after a mining camp in the American Cordillera - most of the miners and companies operating in the boundary country were from the USA. (Rupert W. Haggen, BCLS, Origin of Place Names in Boundary District, 1945 manuscript, file H.1.45.) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |