Adopted by the Geographic Board of Canada in 1917, as identified in the 1877 Canadian Pacific Railway report. Edward Worrell Jarvis [1846–1894], with his assistant Charles Francis Hanington [1848–1930], explored the region in 1875 in connection with CPR surveys.

Named in association with Jarvis Pass.

Adopted in 1939 for BC Lands’ map 5D, Revelstoke-Golden, “flowing E into Columbia River at junction with Canoe River”. Location description and coordinates of mouth subsequently adjusted after flooding behind Mica Dam.

Camp Creek labelled on BC Reference Map 42 was likely adjusted to Encampment Creek to avoid duplication and to retain a historic reference: this creek originally flowed into the apex of the great bend [Big Bend] of the Columbia River at approximately 52°8′ N 118°27’15” W opposite Boat Encampment, the place where David Thompson [1770–1857] wintered in 1811. Following flooding of these valleys behind Mica Dam, this creek now flows into Kinbasket Lake.

Detail of Tête Jaune Cache area, John Arrowsmith map,1859
Colonial Dispatches, Uvic

“Orignal” is Canadian French for “moose,” derived from Basque oreina “deer” via orignac, the form that the Basque word took on in the Basque-Mi’kmaq pidgin used by the Mi’kmaq and visiting Basque fishermen and whalers.

On Arrowsmith’s 1859 map, Moose Lake appears as “Lac L’Original [sic],” and the two sections of Yellowhead Lake are called Moose Lake and Cow dung Lake.

Origin of the name unknown.