| 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 NE across BC-Alberta boundary into Wapiti River, SE of Monkman Park, Peace River Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 54°20'35"N, 120°00'00"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 93I/8 |
| Related Maps: |
93I/1 93I/2 93I/8 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Narraway River adopted 2 January 1923 on BC-Alberta boundary sheet #40; not "Sheep Creek" as labelled on BC Lands' maps 1G, 1916, and 1H, 1917, nor "Crooked River" as submitted on preliminary plans of interprovincial boundary survey by R.W. Cautley, DLS. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Athos Maxwell Narraway, DLS ( - 1974), who had surveyed the trail between Fort St. John and Fort Nelson River in 1921, and, as controller of surveys for the Department of Mines and Resources, Ottawa, had visited this area while inspecting Mr. Cautley's interprovincial boundary survey party in 1922. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Headwaters in BC at 54 10-120 34 on map 93 I/2; mouth in Alberta at 55 44-119 55 on map 83 L/12. Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |