British Columbia. Creek: Fraser River drainage
Flows S into Fraser River, E of Croydon
53.05 N 119.6333 W — Map 83E/4 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1871 (Trutch)
Name officially adopted in 1951
Official in BC – Canada
Flows S into Fraser River, E of Croydon
53.05 N 119.6333 W — Map 83E/4 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1871 (Trutch)
Name officially adopted in 1951
Official in BC – Canada
This creek appears on:
Trutch’s map of BC 1871
Collie’s map Yellowhead Pass 1912
Jobe’s map Jarvis Pass to Yellowhead 1915
Pre-emptor’s map Tête Jaune 3H 1919
Trutch’s map of BC 1871
Collie’s map Yellowhead Pass 1912
Jobe’s map Jarvis Pass to Yellowhead 1915
Pre-emptor’s map Tête Jaune 3H 1919
In 1909 Stanley Washburn [1878–1950] said that Small River was one of the names “given by the trappers.”
Edward Willet Dorland Holway [1853–1923], an American banker and mycologist, approached the creek from its headwaters in 1915:
At the head of Horse Creek is a great glacier with several peaks about 10,500 feet, and between Horse Creek and Small River, on a branch of which we now were, is a very fine glacier-covered mountain around 10,500 feet.…
We followed Small River to a cabin on the Fraser, where we found flour and potatoes, crossed in the morning to an old construction camp, where there were just spikes enough to build a small raft, upon which we piled our things and floated down to Croydon, where we had left our trunks.
References:
- Washburn, Stanley [1878–1950]. Trails, Trappers and Tenderfeet in the New Empire of Western Canada. New York and London: Henry Holt, Andrew Melrose, 1912. Hathi Trust
- Holway, Edward Willet Dorland [1853–1923]. “First ascent of Mt. Edith Cavell and explorations in the Mt. Longstaff Region.” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 7 (1916):51-53