Lac Le Jeune Thompson-Nicola Regional District, British Columbia

Locality - A named place or area, generally with a scattered population of 50 or less. N side of Lac Le Jeune, just S of Kamloops, Kamloops Division Yale Land District

Mapped Location

Lac Le Jeune: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.

 

Information

General information on Lac Le Jeune

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Lac Le Jeune

A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named

Name Description
Lac Le Jeune Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Lac Le Jeune

References to Lac Le Jeune that document the origin of its place name

Originally known as Costley's Lake, and then as Fish Lake. Name changed to Lac Le Jeune (Post Office) 5 September 1957 on 92 I/SE. Form of name changed to Lac Le Jeune (locality) 31 May 1982 on 92 I/8.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office  |  Province of British Columbia

Renamed in honour of Father Jean-Marie Raphael Le Jeune, O.M.I. (1855-1930), who arrived from France as a missionary in 1879, serving first in the East Kootenay, then at Williams Lake, and finally at Kamloops. Using the Chinook jargon printed in the French Duployan shorthand, he published for the Indians a number of books and one newspaper, The Kamloops Wawa ("Wawa" is the Chinook word for "talk").

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; 1001 British Columbia Place Names; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973.  |  Province of British Columbia

Fr. LeJeune was born at Pleyber Christ, France, 12 April 1855.... (see also Le Jeune, Lac).

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office  |  Province of British Columbia

 

Thompson-Nicola Regional District

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Last updated: 2023-10-02