Mitchell 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 SW through Mitchell Lake into head of North Arm Quesnel Lake, Cariboo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 52°46'41"N, 120°48'13"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 93A/15 |
| Related Maps: |
93A/15 93A/16 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Mitchell River adopted 28 April 1936 on Ottawa file OBF 1484, as labelled on BC Lands' maps 1G, 1916, 3H, 1919, 3G, 1935; not "Mitchells River" as spelled on Amos Bowman's 1887 map of Cariboo Mining District. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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After Captain Isaiah Mitchell who came to the Cariboo in 1861; unsuccessful at mining he became a packer and a trail & bridge builder in the region. (Helen Manning, Place Names in the Cariboo, 1943 thesis for BA/History on file at UBC). Also Mitchell Lake and Mount Mitchell. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |