BC geological survey aerial photography from the early 1950s shows this Photo # BC1782:40) The lake was created by diking both of off the highway and on the North end to Hayward road.

The dikes were constructed buy dump and push methods with raw gravel mined from the North end of the island.

All of this was part of a 1950s vintage real estate development by Norman William (Ned) Hullah's.

The private portion includes the lake bottom to the Fraser 1896 high water mark in front of all of the housing along the shore.

The name is a reference to consequences of the successive smallpox plagues and other disease pandemics which destroyed the populations and cultures of the Fraser Valley.