| 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 S into Indian Arm, NE of North Vancouver District Municipality, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°28'14"N, 122°52'59"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/7 |
| Related Maps: |
92G/10 92G/11 92G/7 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 9 December 1921 by the Geographic Board of Canada, for Geological Survey of Canada map #1933, Fraser River Delta, as labelled on BC map 2B, 1914. "Indian River (not Mesliloet river)" identified in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Originally submitted in 1914 by Vancouver mountaineering groups, as a well-established local name. "I....urge the confirmation of the name Indian river, giving local and historical usage as the reason." (15 November 1921 letter from BC member of Geographic Board of Canada, file F.1.21) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Senr. Galiano informed me that they had examined the small branch I had passed by in Burrard's channel, which was found very narrow, leading in a north direction nearly three leagues, where it terminated in a small rivulet." (excerpt from Vancouver's Journal, Vol 2, p.218.) Source: Nelson, Denys; Place Names of the Delta of the Fraser River; 1927, unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives |