East Barrière River

Feature Type:River - Watercourse of variable size, which has tributaries and flows into a body of water or a larger watercourse.
Status:
Name Authority: BC Geographical Names Office
Relative Location: Flows W into Barrière River, E side of North Thompson River N of Kamloops, Kamloops Division Yale Land District
Latitude-Longitude: 51°14'27''N, 119°56'16''W at the approximate mouth of this feature.
Datum: NAD83
NTS Map: 82M/4
Related Maps: 82M/4
82M/5

Origin Notes and History:

East Barrière River adopted 27 July 1966 on 82/NW, not "South Fork Barriere River" as labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

[note: the various ...Barrière... features are presented without the grave accent on BC Lands' map 3J, 1914 et seq, and in the 1930 & 1953 BC Gazetteers.]

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office