The Colonial Despatches: Lowhee Creek

Lowhee Creek

Lowhee Creek flows into Jack of Clubs Lake, in the Cariboo region of British Columbia; according to this 1861 despatch by Douglas, Lowhee Creek is a a tributary of Swift River.

The Akrigg's write that the name was given by Dick Willoughby, who found his gold-fortune there in 1861, in reference to a secret society at Yale University.1

1. G. P. V. Akrigg and H. B. Akrigg, British Columbia Place Names (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1997), 157.

Mentions of this place in the documents

Douglas, Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 13 November 1863, CO 60:16, no. 12536, 281.
Douglas, Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 16 July 1862, CO 60:13, no. 8653, 277.
Douglas, Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 16 September 1861, CO 60:11, no. 9801, 18.
Douglas, Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 24 October 1861, CO 60:11, no. 10961, 94.
Douglas, Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 14 September 1863, CO 60:16, no. 10454, 152.
The Colonial Despatches: Abbott, Ivel

People in this document

Douglas, Sir James

Places in this document

British Columbia

Cariboo Region

Quesnel River

The Colonial Despatches Team. Lowhee Creek. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. The Colonial Despatches Team. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/lowhee_creek.html.

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Colonial Despatches

The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871

Lowhee Creek