Boston Bar
| Feature Type: | Bar (1) - A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other unconsolidated material extending across the mouth of a river, harbour or bay and which may obstruct navigation. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | In Fraser River, N of mouth of Anderson Creek, between Yale and Lytton, Yale Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°50'59"N, 121°26'19"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92H/14 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 7 April 1955 on 92H/14, as long-labelled on maps and identified in descriptions of the Fraser River gold rush. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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So-named because most of the placer miners working this bar in 1858-59 were "Boston men" ie. Americans, in turn because the first American ships off this coast were invariably from Boston, the Indians took to calling them "Boston men". Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |