Barbour Creek (flowing into Toby Creek), Barbour Lake
Jack immediately set himself up with a “first-class pack train,”11 equipped with twenty-two horses to haul equipment in and out of the mines up Toby Creek.12
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Forster (1)
Forster Creek, Mount Forster, Forster Pass
Forster certainly projected the air of a successful rancher.
Frances
Frances Creek (flowing into Forster Creek)
Previous names: No 3 Creek
Frances Ewart Forster was just one year old when her father, Harold Ernest Forster, … requested that the Chief Geographer of the province name the creek after his daughter.
Andreen/Haultain/Ogelston
Andreen Creek, Haultain Creek (both flowing into Horsethief Creek); Ogelston Creek (flows towards Frances Creek)
A bit of a different post this week: three different creeks named after people that we either don’t know enough about, or aren’t locally interesting enough to warrant a post of their own.
McLean
McLean Lake/Creek
“We sat down and sliding – not always smoothly or comfortably – from one foothold to another and making sharp angles around rugged corners of the bluff we got to the mouth of a tunnel. Dave… with a smile asked; “How would you like to pack these timbers on your back down there?” pointing at some timbering. No one replied as we were very anxious then to get further into the tunnel to take a long breath.”11
Hurst
Hurst Creek, North Hurst Creek, Hurst Creek Road
Jack Hurst was “a versatile man, able to do all the jobs on the ranch… He played the fiddle and was a good story teller.”33
Lead Queen
Lead Queen Mountain (Septet Range)
Extensive development work gave the Lead Queen a reputation for being, “unquestionably one of the best developed properties in the Division.”17
Isaac
Isaac Creek (flowing North into Frances Creek)
More shipments were made from the Isaac claim than many other better known mines in the Valley, totalling at least 250 tons over a period of about eight years … This record is surprising given that few people today have heard about the Isaac mine.
In The Windermere 