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Chilliwack Lake, Custer (?) Ridge.

Sxótsaqel, Chilliwack Lake (Center Ridge); Pep'qwothet, Greendrop Lake; Kwókwelm, Post Creek.

Sxótsaqel "sacred lake," "something sacred." Indeed, there are water-babies. Greendrop Lake "another lake entering another." Pep'qwothet "another lake emptying into another," Greendrop Lake. Kwókwelm "echo," Post Creek coming out of Greendrop Lake, flowing on the left. Chilliwack Lake Provincial Park on the bottom left.

References:
Sxóchaqel - Chilliwack Lake
Brent Douglas Galloway, Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem, Volume I (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009) 645.

Sxóchaqel - Chilliwack Lake, literally lake at the head (of the river).
Brent Douglas Galloway, Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem, Volume I (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009) 1000.

Kwókwelm - you think somebody is talking back there, but it's your own voice; Post Creek.
Carlson, Keith Thor, Albert Sonny McHalsie, and Jan Parrier, ed. A Sto:lo?-Coast Salish Historical Atlas. Vancouver, Seattle, Chilliwack: Douglas & McIntyre, University of Washington Press, Stó:lõ Heritage Trust, 2001, 142.

Pep'qwothet - "another lake emptying into another," Greendrop Lake.
Carlson, Keith Thor, Albert Sonny McHalsie, and Jan Parrier, ed. A Sto:lo?-Coast Salish Historical Atlas. Vancouver, Seattle, Chilliwack: Douglas & McIntyre, University of Washington Press, Stó:lõ Heritage Trust, 2001, 144.