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Saddle Lakes

British Columbia. Lakes: Columbia River drainage
W side of Canoe Reach (Kinbasket Lake), across from Ptarmigan Bay
52.5722 N 118.8861 W — Map 83D/10 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1989
Official in BC – Canada

Adopted in 1989 on as submitted by BC Recreational Fisheries Branch; descriptive of surrounding topography.

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Blackmore Creek

British Columbia. Creek: Columbia River drainage
Flows NE into Canoe Reach, Kinbasket Lake
52.6333 N 118.9833 W — Map 83D/10 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1954
Official in BC – Canada

After Robert Blackmore, one of the party with R.H. Lee in 1895, on an exploratory trip to the Big Bend country. See 1895 field book 176A/1895, ph 3, Lillooet Land District.
The name “Blackmore” was first suggested for a nearby creek, already well known as Bulldog Creek (file C.1.53). “Blackmore” re-positioned to this feature, to retain the name in the immediate vicinity

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Cranberry Creek

British Columbia. Creek: Fraser River drainage
Flows N into Swift Creek at Valemount
52.8367 N 119.2908 W — Map 083D14 — Google — GeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1991
Official in BC – Canada

Name required in 1991 for water licence; in the absence of any known local name, “Cranberry” chosen because historically, this creek used to flow out of Cranberry Lake.

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