Origin of the name unknown.
Hugh Drummond Allan [1887–1917] was born in Scotland and came to Canada around 1907. He became a British Columbia land surveyor in 1912. His professional work was carried on mainly in the Kamloops district and the North Thompson valley. In 1913 he surveyed in the Canoe River area. “From Mile 49 on the Grand Trunk Pacific I proceeded with my party by wagon and reached the Canoe River in one day,” he reported.
After the start of the first World War Allan returned to Scotland and enlisted. In 1916 he was wounded, and in 1917 he was killed leading his company at Croiselles, France. Lieutenant Allan was shortly predeceased by his wife and infant child.
(There is another Hugh Allan [1810-1882], a Scottish-Canadian shipping magnate, apparently unrelated.)
Among the places renamed in 1927 by the Order in Council that created the Premier Range.
The name was known to Stanley Washburn in 1909, among those names “given by the trappers.”
Horseshoe Lake. Village of McBride top left, loop of Fraser River top right, railroad diagonally at the west edge of town
Canadian Geographical Names Database
Surveyor James Alexander Walker [1887–1959] reported in 1914 that the lake was “very popular in summer for boating and bathing.” The townsite had just been laid out the year before by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.
Adopted in 1965 as labelled on BC Lands’ map 1G, 1916. Origin/significance not recorded.
Between 1914 and 1916, Edward Willet Dorland Holway [1853–1923] of the University of Minnesota, with Andrew James Gilmour of New York, explored the southern Selkirks, the region about Mount Edith Cavell, the area north of Whitehorn Mountain, and the Cariboo Mountains near Tête Jaune Cache. Theirs was the first mountaineering expedition into the Cariboos, but continuous bad weather prevented any serious climbing.
Holways Peak was renamed “Penny Mountain” in the Premier Range proclamation.
Named in association with Holways Peak and renamed Tête Glacier in the Premier Range proclamation of 1927.
