Days Ranch
| Feature Type: | Locality - A named place or area, generally with a scattered population of 50 or less. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | NE of junction of Tahltan and Stikine Rivers, NE of Telegraph Creek (community), Cassiar Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 58°01'59"N, 130°53'06"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 104J/2 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 14 August 1952 on 104J. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Labelled "Day's" on BC map 5C, Stikine, 1929 - a stopping place on the Telegraph Creek-Dease Lake Road. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Ira Day, who developed this holding. "The man who built the ranch and irrigated its fields was Ira Day. He's been dead about 10 years and the ranch was abandoned for a time." (Vancouver Sun, 19 August 1971, p.16) Aerial photographs dated 1982 show an active (ranching?) operation. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |