Duncan Lake | |
Location: | Northern Interior, British Columbia |
Coords: | 57.9667°N -173°W |
Type: | lake |
Pushpin Map: | British Columbia |
Outflow: | Finlay River |
Basin Countries: | Canada |
Length: | 6km (04miles) |
Duncan Lake – known as Amazay in Sekani– is a natural 6km (04miles)-long wilderness fish-bearing lake with rainbow trout and whitefish populations, located at the headwaters of the Findlay watershed. in the Omineca Mountains of the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. The Finlay River
The Tse Keh Nay, formerly known as the Ingenika, live at the north end of the Williston Lake in the community of Tsay Keh Dene. They have lived in the Rocky Mountain Trench, also known as the Valley of a Thousand Peaks "for many generations." In 1824 Samuel Black (1780-1841), an early fur trader kept a journal describing his visited to the region with Tse Keh Nay Chief Methodiates and his followers. He described the historic use of the resource rich Amazay/Thutade/Kemess area.
Amazay Lake was the calving ground for caribou in the month of May.