Chuckwalla River
| 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 W into Kilbella Bay near head of Rivers Inlet, Range 2 Coast Land District |
| Tags: | Indigenous |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°43'39"N, 127°20'25"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92M/11 |
| Related Maps: |
92M/11 92M/14 92M/15 |
|
|
Origin Notes and History:
|
Adopted 3 June 1947 on C.3778, as labelled on BC map 2E, 1924, 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 |
|
Headwaters at 51 52 - 127 54 on 92M/15. Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |
|
Means "Short River" in the Oowekyala language. From the entry for "Kilbella Bay," page 307. Source: Scott, Andrew; "The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names"; Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, 2009, page 307. |