Cassiar 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 N into Turnagain River, SE of Cry Lake, Cassiar Land District
Latitude-Longitude: 58°39'05"N, 128°05'17"W at the approximate mouth of this feature.
Datum: WGS84
NTS Map: 104I/9
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Origin Notes and History:

Adopted December 1944 on 104/NE, not "South Fork Turnagain River" as identified in BC Mines Bulletin 12 (date not cited); location adjusted 17 January 1952 on 104I (file D.1.44)

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

So-named because of its relative position in the centre of the Cassiar Land District. See Cassiar Mountains.

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