Author Archives: Swany

Jackman Flats Park

Leave a reply
British Columbia. Provincial Park
SE of Tête Jaune Cache
52.9358 N 119.3861 W Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 2002
Official in BC – Canada

Jackman Flats Provincial Park was established in 2000. At the end of the last ice age, some 11,000 years ago, winds from the main trench of the Fraser River and from, what is now, Kinbasket Lake, deposited vast quantities of sand in the Jackman Flats area. This created an ecosystem considered unique in British Columbia. Rare plant communities and shifting sand dune structures now exist in this rather small park (614 ha).

References:

Also see:

Mount Terry Fox Park

Leave a reply
British Columbia. Provincial Park
Adjacent to SW side of Mount Robson Park
52.95 N 119.25 W — Map 83D/14 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1982
Official in BC – Canada

Established on 23 June 1982, containing 1930 hectares more or less.

References:

Also see:

Pinkerton Creek

Leave a reply
British Columbia. Creek: Fraser River drainage
Flows S from Pinkerton Lake into Haggen Creek, N of Wells
53.5781 N 121.5833 W — Map 093H12 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1960
Official in BC – Canada

Adopted in 1960 as an established local name, and as labelled on BC Lands’ map 1G, 1959.

Note that another watercourse, flowing northwest into Bowron River, was labelled “Pinkerton (Spruce) Creek” on BC Lands’s map 3A, 1915, 1921 & 1944 editions – presumably the stream had been understood to drain Pinkerton Lake. The stream tributary to Bowron River has since been adopted as Spruce Creek, and the name “Pinkerton Creek” has been applied to the stream that drains Pinkerton Lake into Haggen Creek.

Another Pinkerton Creek less than 60km south of here, tributary to Jack of Clubs Creek near Barkerville. That creek was named after John Pinkerton, one of the Overlanders of 1862, who partnered with Thaddeus Harper in mining claims in the Cariboo — possibly the same namesake.

Abrams Creek

Leave a reply
British Columbia. Creek: Fraser River drainage
Flows N into Holmes River
53.3392 N 119.7275 W — Map 83E/5 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 2010
Official in BC – Canada

When a name for this creek was required for a water licence application, the British Columbia Geographical Names Office chose Abrams Creek to recall Ted Abrams, a Tête Jaune trapper from the years before the First World War who participated in the McBride trappers’ exchange for many years.

References:

  • Wheeler, Marilyn [1932–2016]. The Robson Valley Story. McBride, B.C.: Sternwheeler Press, 2008, pp 18, 228, 252, 360
  • British Columbia Geographical Names. Abrams Creek

Centennial Creek

Leave a reply
British Columbia. Creek: Fraser River drainage
Flows E into Slim Creek Creek, NE of Pinkerton Lake
53.6756 N 121.4969 W — Map 93H/11 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1974
Official in BC – Canada

Adopted in 1974 as submitted in 1970 by A.C. Van Der Postpf the British Columbia Forest Service. Named in BC’s Centennial Year, 1971.

References:

Flat Heart River

Leave a reply
British Columbia. : Columbia River drainage
David Thompson’s name for Wood River
Earliest known reference to this name is 1811 (Thompson).
Not currently an official name.

David Thompson, events of January 1811:

Our residence was near the junction of two Rivers from the Mountains with the Columbia: the upper Stream which forms the defile by which we came to the Columbia, I named the Flat Heart, from the Men being dispirited ; it had nothing particular. The other was the Canoe River ; which ran through a bold rude valley, of a steady descent, which gave to this River a very rapid descent without any falls…

Thompson’s “Flat Heart ” river is now Wood river. It is clear from this text that both the Athabaska Pass and the Canoe river region had been visited earlier than this by the guide, Thomas the Iroquois, and by other Nipissing and Iroquois Indians ; but Thompson was the first white man to cross it.

References:

  • Thompson, David [1770–1857]. David Thompson’s Narrative of his explorations in western America, 1784-1812. Joseph Burr Tyrrell, editor. Toronto: Champlain Society, 1916, p. 451. University of British Columbia
Also see: