Talk:Pouce Coupe, British Columbia
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[edit] Good Article Candidate??
This is one of several articles about towns in BC that I have come across which I consider to be models that other articles should aspire to match. Have those doing the work here considered taking this through the Wikipedia:Good articles/Candidates process? See also Wikipedia:Good articles KenWalker | Talk 23:40, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Name
In Akriggs 1001 BC Place Names" the authors say it came from a Sikanni trapper who was nick named by French Canadian voyageurs because he had lost a thumb in an accident with his gun. They say that Simon Fraser also mentions the trapper as early as 1806. I have the book out from the local library at the moment if the cite is wanted. --KenWalker | Talk 05:12, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
- Please do add this and attribute to the author. The origin is not known definitively but there are several theories (and variations on each theory). The most common that I have encountered is one about Chief Pooscapee of the Beaver tribe. Near as I can figure the prairie that the village (and the city of Dawson Creek) is situated upon is named after a person and then the village was later named after the prairie. --maclean 04:21, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
