| Language of origin | Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit, Na-Dene language family Tŝilhqot’in language |
| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Not official |
| Other Names: | Beece CreekOfficial, Bisqox |
| Relative Location: | Flows NW into the N end of Taseko Lakes, Lillooet Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°22'43"N, 123°37'50"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92O/5 |
| Related Maps: |
92O/3 92O/5 92O/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Beece Creek was adopted 5 August 1954 on 92 O, as labelled on BC map 2D, 1923. Identified in 1930 and 1953 BC Gazetteers. Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |
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"I took the spelling from G.M. Dawson's Geological Survey map (1879-80), in which he gives Beece as the alternative name for Anahim Peak. I cut this in while running the Parallel in 1912-13, and old Capoose of Abuntlet Lake told me some wonderful yarns about the way in which Indians used to come from far and near to get supplies of beece, or obsidian, for arrowheads and so forth. Anybody who came for obsidian was supposed to leave a piece of rock on a pile near by, and I understood this to be the pile I was sighting - see my account in the Lands Department Report for 1913. In 1923 I was working near the 53rd Parallel and climbed Beece, but did not have time to look for obsidian. I found that the mark I had been shooting at was not a pile of rocks, but a bush, and had to tell the joke against myself in the Report for that year." (11 April 1949 letter from R.P. Bishop, BCLS, file H.1 47). Source: included with note |
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"Bisqox" is a Tŝilhqot’in name meaning 'obsidian creek' - the two words "bis" (obsidian) and "yeqox" (river) merged over countless generations of usage into a single proper name. The name Beece Creek is an anglicisation of the Tŝilhqot’in name Bisqox (advice from Tŝilhqot’in National Government, 2023). Source: included with note |