Garden River - Gummer Lake

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Garden River 84 I/12 - Buchanan Lake
10-1-112-24-W4
58° 42' N 113° 54' W
Flows east into Peace River approximately 184 km east of High Level

Garden River was the name recorded by the surveyors in 1910. The name has since been rescinded.
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Garfield Lake 84 C/5 - Chinook Valley
23-85-23-W5
56° 23' N 117° 31' W
Approximately 22 km north-west of Grimshaw

The precise origin for the name of this lake is unknown; it is mentioned in the 1913 field notes of G.A. Tipper, DLS, ALS.
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Gargoyle Mountain 83 E/1 - Snaring
36-47-2-W6
53° 06' N 118° 10' W
Approximately 26 km north north-west of Jasper

A gargoyle is described as a "grotesque spout, usually in the form of a human animal mouth, head or body, projecting from a gutter." A stream flows from the base of this mountain, 2,963 m in altitude, as from a gargoyle. The descriptive name for this feature was given by M.P. Bridgland in 1916.
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Garner Island - Saskatchewan
Named after Albert Coleman Garner, ALS, a veteran of the Boer War and World War I. He was the Chief Surveyor for the Saskatchewan Land Titles Office from 1912 to 1914 and a life member of the Saskatchewan Land Surveyors' Association. Garner Island is on map sheet 74N8 on Lake Athabasca at Latitude 59 degrees and 27 minutes, Longitude 108 degrees and 12 minutes.
Jack Webb, ALS (Hon. Life)

George Creek 83 C/10 - George Creek
1-42-19-W5
52° 36' N 116° 36' W
Flows north into Blackstone River, approximately 38 km west north-west of Nordegg

The name for this creek was proposed by H.L. Seymour, DLS, ALS in 1907 and was officially approved November 4, 1910. It commemorates George Bernstein (1857-1924), a German book and newspaper publisher. He was president of the German Development Company on Blackstone River.
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Gerard Creek 84 E/8 - Botha River
12-98-1-W6
57° 23' N 118° 02' W
Flows south into Botha River approximately 57 km north north-west of Manning

The feature appears named on a federal government map of 1916 and is likely named after a member of the 1915 survey crew of J.R. Akins, DLS, working in the area.
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Gipsy Lake 74 D/8 - Gipsy Lake
34-85-2-W4
56° 25' N 110° 14' W
Approximately 76 km east south-east of Fort McMurray

The precise origin of the name of this lake is unknown. The name Gipsy Lake was recorded as early as 1910 by J.N. Wallace, DLS, ALS.
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Giroux Lake 83 K/10 - Atikkamek Creek
9-65-20-W5
54° 37' N 116° 58' W
Approximately 24 km north-west of Fox Creek

The name appears on federal government maps as early as 1917. It may have been named after someone in the Giroux family, pioneers in the Peace River country. Because the lake is just three kilometres north of the 17th Baseline, it was likely named after a survey crew member.
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Glendowan, Mount 82 G/1 Sage Creek
34-2-1-W5
49° 11' N 114° 03' W
Approximately 17 km north-west of Waterton Park

This mountain was named by M.P. Bridgland in 1915. Mount Glendowan rises 2,673 m above sea level and is the namesake of the range in Ireland in the county of Donegal of the same name. Glendowan means "deep glen."
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Gloria Lake 82 J/13 - Mount Assiniboine
16-22-12-W5
50° 51' N 115° 36' W
Approximately 100 km west of Calgary

This lake was named by A.O. Wheeler for its magnificent colour in 1917.
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Glover Lake 73 M/6 - Wiau Lake
2-15-75-9-W4
55° 30' N 111° 18' W
Approximately 90 km north north-east of Lac La Biche

It was named after A.E. Glover, DLS, ALS, working in the area in 1918.
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Golden Eagle Peak 82 N/15 - Mistaya Lake
21-33-21-W5
51° 51' N 116° 56' W
Approximately 120 km north-west of Banff

This mountain peak, 3,048 m in altitude, was named in 1919 by A.O. Wheeler. There were, at the time of naming, a number of Golden Eagles seen in the vicinity of the peak.
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Goldsmith Creek 83 J/13 - Wallace Mountain
9-68-12-W5
54° 54' N 115° 47' W
Flows north-west into Driftpile River, approximately 31 km north-west of Swan Hills

It was officially named in 1906 after Sandy Goldsmith of Edmonton, a member of a survey party.
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Goodwin Lake 73 M/5 - Behan Lake
20-74-11-W4
55° 26' N 111° 39' W
Approximately 75 km north of Lac La Biche

Possibly named after Frank Goodwin, the chief packer on the 1912 party surveying the 19th Baseline, 15 kilometres south of the lake.
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Gordon Creek 74 D/16 - High Hill River
27-90-1-W4
56° 50' N 110° 03' W
Flows south into Sutton Creek, approximately 83 km east of Fort McMurray

In correspondence with the Geographic Board of Canada, J.N. Wallace, DLS, ALS, said he named the feature after Gordon Sutton, a survey party member.
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Gorman, Mount 83 L/4 - Kakwa Falls
60-14-W6
54° 11' N 120° 00' W
Approximately 65 km north-west of Grande Cache on the Alberta-BC boundary

The mountain, which is 2,340 m in altitude, was named in 1925 after A.O. Gorman of the Dominion Land Survey. Gorman was employed on both subdivision resurveys and baseline surveys. During the mines and technical surveys of the Alberta-BC boundary surveys, he was Assistant Surveyor General and also was Chief of the Legal Surveys Division in the early 1900s.
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Graham Creek (Cowper Lake) 73 M/16 - Cowper Lake
4-9-80-1-W4
55° 54' N 110° 07' W
Flows west into Landels River approximately 120 km south-east of Fort McMurray

This creek was named after Graham Davies of Lloydminster, a member of a survey party. The name was recorded in the 1910 notes of J.N. Wallace, DLS, ALS.
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Graham Creek (Rio Grande) 83 M/4 - Rio Grande
SW-25-71-13-W6
55° 10' N 119° 52' W
Flows east into Windsor Creek approximately 68 km west of Grande Prairie

It appears on a boundary survey map of 1922 and may be named after a survey crew member working in the area in the mid-1910s
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Grassy Mountain 82 G/9 - Blairmore
1-9-4-W5
49° 42' N 114° 25' W
Approximately 12 km north of Blairmore

M.P. Bridgland suggested the descriptive name of Grassy Mountain for this feature, which 2,065 m in altitude. The name was officially approved in July 1915 but the mountain has since been exploited for coal and its name is no longer as appropriate as it once was.
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Grassy Ridge 83 E/1 - Snaring
48-2-W6
53° 07' N 118° 10' W
Approximately 26 km north north-west of Jasper

This descriptive name was officially applied to this ridge in 1916 by M.P. Bridgland. The ridge has a grassy shoulder on it.
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Greenock, Mount 83 E/1 - Snaring
4-48-1-W6
53° 06' N 118° 05' W
Approximately 25 km north of Jasper

Named in 1916 by M.P. Bridgland, this mountain which is 2,065 m in altitude has a rounded peak. "Greenroch" means "the sunny knoll" in Gaelic so perhaps the mountain was climbed on a sunny day. Greenock is also a town in Scotland.
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Gregg Lake 83 F/12 - Gregg Lake
32-52-26-W5
53° 32' N 117° 48' W
Approximately 21 km north-west of Hinton

Mr. John James Gregg (1840-1941) lived in the district for 18 years and was the first person to tell the surveyor Saint-Cyr, who named the lake in 1908, about its location.
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Grisette Mountain 83 C/13 - Medicine Lake
12-46-28-W5
52° 56' N 117° 57' W
Approximately 12 km north-east of Jasper

"Gris" is the French word for "grey." This mountain was named by M.P. Bridgland in 1916 due to its composition of greyish limestone.
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Gross Creek 74 L/2 - Larocque Lake
10-8-105-4-W4
58° 06' N 110° 37' W
Flows south-west into Maybelle River approximately 150 km north north-east of Fort McMurray

The name appears on maps as early as 1919, and although the origin of the name is not precisely known, it may have been the surname of a survey crew member working for F.V. Seibert, DLS, ALS, in 1915.
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Gull Lake 84 K/8 - Fort Vermilion
5-109-13-W5
58° 26' N 116° 07' W
Approximately 58 km east of High Level

A descriptive name due to the large number of gulls found there. This name was apparently in use at the turn of the century as it was recorded by A.W. Ponton during the 1910 Dominion Survey of 108-13-W5. J.B. St. Cyr, DLS, during the survey of the North Vermilion settlement, recorded the stream draining this lake as Gull Creek.
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Gummer Lake 83 M/7 - Sexsmith
34-73-7-W6
55° 22' N 119° 00' W
Approximately 21 km north-west of Grande Prairie

Although not officially named until the 1950s, the name for this lake probably refers to Ed and Eva Gummer who homesteaded on land nearby. Mr. Gummer was born in 1889 in Norham, Ontario. He moved to the Peace River country in 1912 and filed for land about 15 km west of Sexsmith. In the early years, he worked on the Dominion Lands Survey as a chainman.
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