Since he died on active service it should be relatively easy to get any existing information from Veterans Affairs Canada and the National Archives.
I don't know enough about the process for naming geographic features to be able to tell you who to ask, but there has to be some kind of register of why the feature was named for an individual. Moving into guesswork - it seems likely that the lake was named for him as a result of some special action on his part (not all casualties got a lake named for them), so there has to be some kind of record existing for that action, whether in the unit War Diary or elsewhere. Do the records of his death mention any awards for valour? Citations for awards can sometimes be quite detailed and even if not directly helpful, might point in a useful direction.
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