| Feature Type: | River - Watercourse of variable size, which has tributaries and flows into a body of water or a larger watercourse. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows NE and NW into Nicola River at Merritt, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°06'52"N, 120°48'15"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92I/2 |
| Related Maps: |
92H/11 92H/14 92H/15 92I/2 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 6 October 1936 on Geological Survey sheet 421A, Hope, as labelled on BC map 2B, 1914, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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On G.M. Dawson's map Interior of B.C. Canadian Geological Survey No. 127, 1877. Headwaters at 49 39 - 121 05. Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |
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Traditional name is Ntstlatko, meaning "cold water". Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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From its Shuswap name, Tsillatko, "cold water." (Dawson, G.M, Notes on the Shuuswap Peoople of British Columbia; Transactions, Royal Society of Canada, Sec II, 1891, p.43) Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |