Tyhee Lake Provincial Park

The lake here, Tyhee Lake Provincial Park in British Columbia, has had a few names over the years. On Trutch's 1871 map, it was called "McLean's Lake," but elsewhere it was "Aldermere Lake." The name Aldermere was for a place on the hill above Telkwa. It later became known as "Tyee Lake," which comes from the Chinook word "Die-yeeh," meaning "chief." The traditional name for this lake is Too-Kyoh-buhn, pronounced toh-kyoh-bun, and that means Big Water Lake. This was also Station 11 on the Collins Overland Telegraph. It was even renamed "Maclure Lake" after a telegraph surveyor, and that name was still in use as late as 1978. But since people kept calling it Tyee, the name was officially changed to Tyhee because another lake in the Cariboo already had the name Tyee. The park itself was established on April 11, 1955, as Maclure Lake Park, and it was 33 hectares. It was renamed Tyhee Lake Park on September 10, 1981, and then on May 19, 2010, the area increased to about 39 hectares.