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1. Augier Lake 22
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Named by Father Morice after Father Cassien Augier (1846-1927), Superior-General of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. |
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2. Burns Lake (Village) / Boer Mountain / Taltapin Lake
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After George ('The Boer') Wallace, who filed for land near Burns Lake in 1908, his wife being the first white woman in the area. Both came from South Africa and spoke Zulu fluently. |
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3. Burns Lake Park / Burns Lake / Deadmans Island Park
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After Michael Byrnes, an explorer for the abortive Collins Overland Telegraph scheme. Byrnes passed this lake around 1866 while surveying a route from Fort Fraser to Hagwilget. |
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4. Decker Lake
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After Decker, a foreman with the Collins Overland Telegraph party here in 1866. |
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5. Ethel F. Wilson Memorial Park
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Ethel F. Wilson Memorial Park- Although childless, Ethel Wilson and her husband Walter, a BC Forest Service ranger, did much for the children of the Burns Lake district, among other things holding summer camps for the forestry-oriented Young Ranger Band. |
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6. Tintagel
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Tintagel - Named after Tintagel, Cornwall. A monument, exhibiting a stone from Tintagel Castle, reminds passersby of the tie between King Arthur's Tintagel and British Columbia's. |
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7. Wet'suwet'en Village / Boo Mountain
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Boo Mountain named after Donald Boo. Mrs. Turkki reports in her history of Burns Lake that 'here resided Lucy Boo, her son Donald, his wife, Sarah, and son Leno. |
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8. Wistaria
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Wistaria - When a name was needed for a post office here, a Mrs. William Harrison suggested that of the flowering vine. |
9. Babine Lake 21B
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10. Burns Lake 18
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11. Chapel Park 28
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12. Dead Man's Island Park
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13. Donald Landing
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14. Palling
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15. Pendleton Bay
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16. Pinkut Lake 23
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17. Poison Creek 17
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18. Poison Creek 17A
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19. Rubyrock Lake Park
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20. Sheraton
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21. Sheraton Creek 19
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22. Skooby Island 48
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23. Woyenne 27
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24. Colleymount / Mount Colley (François Lake, 20km)
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Also COLLEY-MOUNT PARK. After Edward Pomeroy Colley, who surveyed land in this area in 1905 and 1906. He perished on the Titanic. |
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25. François Lake / Mount Carl Borden (François Lake, 20km)
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Mount Carl Borden named after Dr. Charles E. Borden (1905-78), Professor of German at UBC, who, taking up archaeology as a hobby in middle life, made it his life work and became the father of scientific archaeology in British Columbia. |