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  Lake Name Cunningham Lake
  Location British Columbia
  Type Reservoir
  Basin Countries Canada


Cunningham Lake (In via Lind Pit Lake road. Nankut Creek connects Cunningham to Stuart Lake .

It is also the name of a tranquil little village nearby, used as a Summer-Fall camp for thousands of years by the Yekoochet'en people and other nearby Indigenous People . In fact, the Yekooche people's very name derrives from the area - ''Ye Koo'' refers to ''Yeko Bun'' (Cunningham Lake) and ''Che'' describes the tail end of Nankut Creek. Yekooche History Yekooche First Nation

As well as a source of hay for cows and horses, the area provides Lake Trout , Whitefish , Kokanee , Moose , Bear , Deer , Duck , and Beaver to hunters. Such food is dried or canned for winter, or historically, traded in Fort St. James for staples such as sugar, flour and rice.

There is a small island called Ruby Rock where the Joseph brothers have a Hunting/Fishing Guide Outfitting company. There is also a little peninsula, known as ''Yekoosle'', where there are cabins owned by a family from Yekooche First Nation . There are also small cabins belonging to the Joseph brothers on the small reservation nearby which they use for haying and hunting. At night, guests can hear loons calling in the distance, and wolves and coyotes howling.


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