Anderson 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 NW into Fraser River just below Boston Bar, Yale Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°50'29"N, 121°26'06"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92H/14 |
| Related Maps: |
92H/11 92H/14 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 6 October 1936 on Canadian Geological map # 422A, Hope, as labelled on Trutch's 1871 map of British Columbia, and on G.M. Dawson's 1877 map, and on BC map 2B, 1914, and numerous subsequent maps. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Presumably named after Alexander Caulfield Anderson, HBC, who came through here in 1847-48. See Anderson Lake (near Lillooet) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |