Alnus Creek
| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows SE then W into Wood River just below Fortress Lake, in Hamber Provincial Park, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 52°22'10"N, 117°55'02"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 83C/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 31 March 1922 on BC-Alberta boundary sheet #24. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Name suggested by interprovincial boundary surveyors, being the latin word for alder, thick groves of which abound on the mountain sides. Also peak and glacier. 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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Headwaters at 52 29 - 118 00. Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |