| 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 from Little Shuswap Lake then W into Thompson River at Kamloops, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°40'49"N, 120°20'19"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92I/9 |
| Related Maps: |
82L/12 82L/13 92I/9 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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South Thompson River adopted 23 April 1912 for Dominion Sectional sheet 111, Kamloops, as labelled on Geological Survey sheet 557, 1895 (Ottawa file OBF 0022). Headwaters changed from 50° 53' x 119° 34' (outlet of Shuswap Lake) to 50° 50 x 119° 42' (outlet of Little Shuswap Lake) 15 January 1982 on 82L/3; at the same time the channel between Shuswap Lake and Little Shuswap Lake was named Little River, in keeping with long-established local usage. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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This channel identified as the main channel of Thompson River on early maps, including Pemberton's 1871 map of British Columbia. [see Thompson River for biographical detail about namesake David Thompson.] Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |