| 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 W into Southgate River, SW of Tŝilhqox Biny (lake), Range 1 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°58'35"N, 124°21'36"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92K/16 |
| Related Maps: |
92J/13 92K/16 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Bishop River adopted 6 May 1924 on Ottawa file OBF 0836, as labelled on BC Lands' map 2D, 1923. "Bishop River (not East Fork of Southgate River)" identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Richard Preston Bishop, BCLS. Born 14 September 1884 in Starcross, Devon; officer with British Admiralty 1906-07; obtained his commission as a B.C. Land Surveyor in 1911; engaged in surveys along longitude 124º near Lillooet in 1912, along latitude 53º in 1913, and in the Cariboo north of Quensel in 1915; served as Captain in WW I, returning to resume surveying activies in British Columbia; died 13 February 1954 at Victoria. Career biography in BC Land Surveyors' Annual Report, 1955. [See also typescript of Bishop's "Journal of Chilco Lake-Bishop River-Southgate River-Franklyn Arm Trip and Attendant Surveys" August & September 1929; copy on file O.1.76 ] Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |