Colonial Despatches

Quamichan Lake is located in the Comiaken and Quamichan Districts, north east of Duncan. According to the Akriggs, the lake derives its name from a hill located behind the Quamichan First Nation village that resembles a humpbacked person.1 A note on the BC Geographical Names website states that Quamichan was an ogre who feasted on children.1

• 1. G. P. V. Akrigg and H. B. Akrigg, British Columbia Place Names (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1997), 219.
• 2. Quamichan Lake, BC Geographical Names Information System.