Is "lahach" a Shuswap word?

[Theresa Kishkan]

I've been away and missed the earlier part of this so forgive me if you've 
already discussed Lac La Hache? I'll just include the entry from the 
Akriggs' British Columbia Place Names in the event you haven't mentioned 
it....

Lac La Hache, N.W. of 100 Mile House. "Axe Lake." Interviewing, in 1946, a 
great-granddaughter of Peter Skene Ogden, the famous H.B.C. chief factor, 
the present writers were told that after a mule with a load of hatchets fell 
into the lake (possibly through the ice) it became known as Lac la Hache. 
Confirmation is supplied by a 1871 entry in the diary of G.A. Sargison in 
the Provincial Archives: "Derives its name from the Hudson's Bay Company 
having lost a lot of axes loaded on an animal."

Cheers!

Theresa Kishkan 

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