Kinbasket Lake
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Kinbasket Lake (or Kinbasket Reservoir) is a reservoir on the Columbia River in southeast British Columbia, north of the town of Revelstoke and Golden. To the north it almost reaches the town of Valemount. The lake includes two reaches, Columbia Reach and Canoe Reach.
The original, smaller Kinbasket Lake was named in 1866 after Kinbasket, a chief of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) native tribe. The modern, large lake was created after the completion of the Mica Dam in 1973, and was called McNaughton Lake (after Andrew McNaughton) until 1980.
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