Toketie

[Leanne Riding]

I'd hazard that this particular gov't publication might hold a clue:
"Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon. Indian Trade Language of the North
Pacific Coast." _Guide to the province of British Columbia for 1877-8 :
compiled from the latest and most authentic sources of information._
Victoria, British Columbia: T.N. Hibben, 1877.

T. N. Hibben had been publishing popular C. J. Dictionaries in Victoria
since the 1860s and here he is in this gov't publication. I think the
engineers may well have used one of T. N. Hibben's dictionaries, which
does contain the word "Toketie. Pretty."

I was looking around and found a neat website: "Vanishing B.C. Toketic,
Pokhaist and Basque on the Thompson River."
[http://www.michaelkluckner.com/bciw6pokhaist.html#toketic]. I think
this has many more clues (and great images!). Toketic is on "a butte
above the Thompson River east of Spences Bridge," where a farmhouse
stood owned by the Anderson family. There seems to have been a parish
there named Toketi, but the map reads Toketic.

Just a guess: the parish came first, the typo came second?

One day, I will understand..............

I just remembered seeing that church when I was a kid. Toketic was
indeed, Pretty.

On Monday, August 9, 2004, at 11:13 , David Robertson wrote:

> The BC place I just mentioned is probably Toketic [sic].  Probably a
> misspelling of Toketie when someone was consulting one of the old CJ
> dictionaries.  One website I saw says the name means 'a pretty place' in
> Indian.
>
> --Dave R.
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