| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows NE. into Pouce Coupé River S. of Pouce Coupé, Peace River Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 55°42'39"N, 120°07'19"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 93P/9 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 5 May 1949 on 93P/NE, as labelled on BC map 3E, 1918. Re-approved 6 February 1952 on 93P/9. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after Joe Bissette, hunter and trapper in this area before the railway. Caution: "Bissett Creek" about 50 miles west of here, near Chetwynd (formerly Grand Prairie). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"...old Joe Bissette, after whom the creek at Pouce Coupe is named.... A fine stalwart man, he used to trade at old Fort St. John, coming in from his hunting grounds with his only companion, a beautiful collie dog, of which he was extremely fond and proud. He gave up trapping as he grew older and had charge of the government ferry over the Peace River at Fort Dunvegan, but by the time the railway came to Grand Prairie and on towards Pouce Coupe, he had crossed the Great Divide to the happy hunting grounds to which, no doubt, his dog had long since departed." (What of BC's Northland ? by E. Lamarque, Vancouver Province, 3 August 1935) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |