| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows SE into Johnsons Slough, N side of Fraser River behind Wahleach Island, below Hope, Yale Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°20'29"N, 121°37'40"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92H/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 7 April 1955 on 92H, as labelled on map Forestry map R77, Harrison Drainage, sheets 4 & 5 (date not cited), and on BC map 4P, 1946. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named by BC Forest Service after J.A. "Jim" Mahood, the first forest ranger to be stationed in the district in the early 1930s. Born 1885; started as assistant ranger with Forest Service, 1917, at Prince George; transferred to Vancouver district 1918; retired 31 August 1950. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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The local names are "Gallagher Creek" or "Johnson Slough" according to c1980 information provided by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, in turn from their report #518 (date of report not cited). [Johnson Slough was formerly a secondary channel of the Fraser, on the west side of Wahleach Island, now cut off from the main channel.] Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |