Germansen 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 Omineca River, NW of Mackenzie, Cassiar Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 55°47'13"N, 124°41'59"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 93N/15 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Germansen River adopted 2 June 1950 on 93N, as labelled on BC Lands' maps 1H and 5A, both 1917. Also Germansen Lake. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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Identified as "Germansen Creek" in BC Mines Reports 1874-1935. After James Germansen. Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |
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After James Germansen, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, who discovered gold in this river in 1870. Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; British Columbia Place Names; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997 |