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British Columbia Tourism Region : Kootenay Rockies
Description From Owner:
- After Brigadier General Frederick L. Burnham, MD (1872-1955). During World War I, he had a distinguished career as a medical officer with the army of Montenegro.
- In 1924 he acquired the Halcyon Hot Springs Hotel on the east side of the lake, perishing in the fire that destroyed it many years later. He was one of the really notable eccentrics in the area.
- The Columbia River first named the Rio de san Roque by the Spaniards after Bruno de Hezeta discovered the river's mouth in 1775.
- It was rediscovered in 1792 by Captain Robert Gray, an American, who named it after his ship, the Columbia.
- Fosthall - Gets its name from the clerk in charge of the post maintained here in the mid-nineteenth century by the HBC.
- Incomappleux River - From the Okanagan Indian word meaning 'head end of lake' or 'end of the water.'
- Kuskanax Creek - From an Okanagan-Colvile Indian word meaning 'a point of land sticking out,' descriptive of the creek's delta.
- The Lakes Indians, who speak a dialect of Okanagan-Colvile, have not lived in the Arrow Lakes area since the early 1900s; they now live on the Colvile Indian Reservation in Washington State.
- With permission from G.P.V and Helen B. Akrigg 1997 British Columbia Place Names. UBC Press.
Address of this page: http://bc.ruralroutes.com/MountBurnham