| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows NW into Mess Creek, W of Mount Edziza, Cassiar Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 57°41'52"N, 130°57'36"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 104G/10 |
| Related Maps: |
104G 104G/10 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Taweh Creek adopted 24 July 1945 on 104/SE, not "Big Sheep Creek" as labelled on BC Lands' map 5C, 1929. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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Name change from Big Sheep Creek suggested by BC Geographic Division to avoid confusion with other similarly-named features, "taweh" being a Tagish Indian word for "mountain sheep." (from Comparative Vocabularies of the Indian Tribes of British Columbia, by W.F. Tolmie and G.M. Dawson, published by Geological & Natural History Survey of Canada, 1884; also contained in "Report on an Exploration in the Yukon and Adjacent Northern Portion of British Columbia" by G.M. Dawson, Annual Report of the Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada, 1887-88, Appendix II, pp. 208B-213B) Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |