| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows NW from Washington State into Chilliwack Lake, Yale Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°01'45"N, 121°24'06"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92H/3 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 17 January 1951 on 92H/3, as labeled on BC map 2B, 1914. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Locally-known as Brown Creek and Kokanee Creek, according to c1982 advice from Department of Fisheries & Oceans. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Probably nearby was a supply depot of the commission which surveyed the international boundary, 1858-61. Also called Brown Creek, after Michael Brown, Co. F, 9th Infantry, US Army, escort to the boundary commission, who drowned in [Chilliwack] lake 10 October 1858, and was buried beside this creek. Source: Provincial Archives' Place Names File (the "Harvey File") compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |