another place name

[rtwright@grassrootsgroup.com]

Information on BC place names can be found at:
http://www.gdbc.gov.bc.ca/bcnames/

Lasca Creek and Mount are listed but no name origina is given.


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>From: Theresa Kishkan <tkishkan at UNISERVE.COM>
>To: CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>Subject: another place name
>Date: Wed, Sep 13, 2000, 9:39 AM
>

> Does anyone know the origins of the name Lasca, as in Lasca Creek (on
> Kootenay Lake)? It isn't in the place name books that I have but it isn't
> awfully big, either, so no surprise.
> Theresa Kishkan
> RR1 Site 20 C11
> Madeira Park, B.C.
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