Cecil Lake

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Cecil Lake
Coordinates: 56°18′00″N120°35′00″W / 56.30000°N 120.58333°W / 56.30000; -120.58333 Coordinates: 56°18′00″N120°35′00″W / 56.30000°N 120.58333°W / 56.30000; -120.58333
Country Canada
Province British Columbia
Federal riding Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies
Provincial riding Peace River North
Postal code
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Cecil Lake is a settlement in British Columbia. [1]

Cecil Lake is a farming community 20 minutes east of Fort Saint John. It was made available for homesteading during the 1930s many families settled in the area during that time. The land was cleared for farming, roads, houses, schools and churches were also built at that time. The area was considered remote because of the poor roads then. A road and bridge across the Beatton River existed through the 1950s and 60s. Due to problems with the banks of the river sliding the road was relocated and the bridge replaced with two bridges in the 1990s. As of 2013 Cecil Lake has two churches, an elementary school, post office/general store, and a community hall.[ citation needed ]

The Beatton River is a tributary of the Peace River, flowing generally east, then south through north-eastern British Columbia, Canada. The river rises at Pink Mountain, about 10 kilometres (6 mi) west of the Alaska Highway hamlet of the same name, and flows 240 kilometres (150 mi) generally east, then south, draining into the Peace River just downstream of Fort St. John. The river meanders mostly through the boreal forest and muskeg of the Peace Plain. Its major tributaries are the Doig and Blueberry Rivers.

Name origin

The community is named after the nearby Cecil Lake, which was believed to have been named in 1910 for Cecil Morton Roberts, who was chief draughtsman at the Surveyor-General's Branch of the British Columbia Department of Lands in 1910. [2]

Cecil Lake is a lake in the Peace River Country of northeastern British Columbia, Canada. It was named in 1910 for Major Cecil Morton Roberts who was Surveyor-General of British Columbia in that year. The community of Cecil Lake was named for this lake and is just south of it.

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