When William Christie, DLS, surveyed this area in 1910 he referred to it as Narrows Lake. Because the name was duplicated elsewhere, the Surveyor General, Edouard Deville, found the name to be objectionable and ordered Christie to identify this feature as Christina Lake in his final report. The name is apparently in honour of Christine Gordon, a Scotswoman who made her home in Fort McMurray. Miss Gordon came to Canada to join her brother, William Gordon (see Gordon Lake), and according to Agnes Dean Cameron in The New North (1909) was "a free trader, if you please, in her own right, operating in opposition to the great and only Hudson's Bay Co...." She was highly respected by everyone in the community. She died in the mid-1940s. (see also Christina River)

Approximately 115 km north-east of Lac La Biche.