Duncan Lake – known as Amazay in Sekani[1]– is a natural 6 km (3.7 mi)-long wilderness fish-bearing lake with rainbow trout and whitefish populations, located at the headwaters of the Findlay watershed.

[2]: 5  They have lived in the Rocky Mountain Trench, also known as the Valley of a Thousand Peaks "for many generations.

"[2] In 1824 Samuel Black (1780-1841),[3] an early fur trader kept a journal describing his visited to the region with Tse Keh Nay Chief Methodiates and his followers.

Another explanation is given by Joe Bob Patrick, who says his father named the lake after his good friend Duncan Pierre from Ingenika (Jennifer Hill, 2005 cited in Dewhirst, 2006:54).

Duncan Pierre’s gravesite is reported to be at Amazay and that recent archaeological research by Frank Craig suggested that site HgSq-10 "may be the final resting place of Duncan Pierre"(Craig 2006).