Cataline Creek
| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows NW into Babine River, NE of Hazelton, Cassiar Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 55°35'54"N, 127°10'03"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 93M/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 21 April 1966 on 93M. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Jean Caux, better known as "Cataline", an early frontiersman who operated a pack train out of Hazelton at the beginning of the 20th century, according to Article 20 of Sperry Cline's memoirs. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"....the legendary Cataline, who packed supplies from Ashcroft to the Yukon as early as 1897 with a train of 60 mules and 50 horses." (BC Outdoors magazine, December 1975, p.10) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |