Talk:Fountain Valley (British Columbia)

Note on why the unofficial name

The valley's official name, dating to the gold rush of 1858, is Three Lakes Valley, but it is most commonly known locally as well as outside the area as the Fountain Valley, Fountain Lakes Valley, or Fountain Lakes.Skookum1 (talk) 17:03, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

bcgnis link

Your reference bcgnis link is "Fountain Valley (British Columbia)". BC Geographical Names., which goes to "Seventyfour Mile Creek", in the Peace River Land District. Is that a mistake? Also, a quick search gives "Fountain Lake". BC Geographical Names., but that isn't the right one is it? Each of the three lakes you mention are in BCGNIS though. Perhaps if I'm feeling crazy I'll stub them up. Might help me fall asleep anyway. :-) Pfly (talk) 03:18, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Fountain Lake, if that's not already directed somewhere, should be for the redirect to Kowtl*nemo (see below) as the one up by Vanderhoof is a blip, whereas the Fountain Lake(s) are much better known; Fountain Lake (Omineca) would be an approriate dab for the northern one. Fountain Lake (British Columbia) might be a dab for "Kwot"....now about that I do see that BCGNIS says that for the lake's main listing; but it shows up Kwotlenomo in descriptions in other entries, including the Fountain Valley and Three Lake Valley ones; Fountain Lakes should also direct here (as a name for the area as much as for hte lakes), if I haven't "made it so" already....but if it does and there's no separate lake articles, then this article would get the lakes in BC cat also; but there's a fair bit of material on each lake, I think you'd find....mostly sceintific research but also fisheries reports and hydrology and such....I'll finally make Fountain Ridge and related articles I guess (pic on the main entry to my Canyonlands page though looks a lot different from ground level.....Skookum1 (talk) 03:35, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Well, I checked and it's on basemap the same way, which isn't exactly surprising; theoretically CNGDB will be the same....but I'm from around there, and "Kwoetlenomo" sounds right, though we'd usualy just say Fountain Lake. Came abck anyway to point out that "Kwotlenemo (Fountain) Lake " is the official name of the lake, in the index, on the map etc....Skookum1 (talk) 03:49, 4 September 2008 (UTC)