English word senses marked with place category "Rivers in British Columbia"
Parent categories: Rivers, Places, Bodies of water, Names, Landforms, Water, Earth, Liquids, Nature, Matter, Chemistry, Sciences
Total 38 word senses
- Anderson (Proper name) A placename; A river in British Columbia, Canada; flowing from near the Coquihalla Pass into the Fraser River near Boston Bar; named for fur trader James Anderson.
- Bear River (Proper name) A number of rivers in Canada, including British Columbia and Nova Scotia.
- Cassiar (Proper name) Ellipsis of Cassiar River. A river in the Cassiar Land District, Northern Interior, Interior, Mainland, British Columbia, Canada
- Chase (Proper name) A placename; A village and river in British Columbia, Canada.
- Chehalis (Proper name) A river in British Columbia, Canada, flowing into the Harrison River.
- Coal Creek (Proper name) A ghost town and stream near Fernie, British Columbia, Canada.
- Coldwater (Proper name) A river in British Columbia, Canada, the Coldwater River.
- Columbia (Proper name) A river in British Columbia, Canada and in Washington and Oregon, United States, flowing from the Canadian Rockies to the Pacific Ocean.
- Columbia River (Proper name) A river in British Columbia, Canada and in Washington and Oregon, United States.
- Duncan (Proper name) A river in British Columbia, Canada; running 206 km near Mount Dawson into the Kootenay Lake; named for prospector John Duncan.
- Fraser (Proper name) A placename; A number of places in Canada; A river in British Columbia that flows from the Rocky Mountains into the Strait of Georgia, named after Simon Fraser (explorer).
- Illecillewaet (Proper name) A river and glacier in British Columbia, Canada, a tributary of the Columbia River.
- Indian River (Proper name) A river in the Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada.
- Kootenay (Proper name) The Kootenay River, a river in British Columbia, Canada, a tributary of the Columbia River. The mid-section of the river enters Idaho and Montana in the United States, where it is named the Kootenai River.
- Lost Creek (Proper name) A stream in British Columbia, Canada.
- Lytton (Proper name) A placename; Ellipsis of Lytton Creek.; A stream in Thompson-Nicola district, British Columbia, Canada
- Middle River (Proper name) A settlement and river in the Omineca Country, British Columbia, Canada.
- Moose River (Proper name) Rivers and communities in Canada:; A river in British Columbia.
- Nass (Proper name) A river in British Columbia.
- Otter Creek (Proper name) A stream in the Atlin Country of British Columbia, Canada.
- Ottertail (Proper name) A river and locality (on the Canadian Pacific Railway) in British Columbia, Canada.
- Peace River (Proper name) A river flowing NE in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada into the Slave River
- Powell River (Proper name) A river in Powell River, Powell River, Regional District of Powell River, Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, Canada, whose source is Powell Lake, and whose mouth is on the Salish Sea; Both the river and its source, the lake, are named for Israel Wood Powell, 19th-century Commissioner of Indian Affairs for British Columbia.
- Salmon River (Proper name) A number of rivers and communities in Canada:; A tributary of the Portland Canal, in northwestern British Columbia.
- Salmon River (Proper name) A number of rivers and communities in Canada:; A tributary of the Fraser River, British Columbia.
- Salmon River (Proper name) A number of rivers and communities in Canada:; A river in northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
- Salmon River (Proper name) A number of rivers and communities in Canada:; A small river in Langley district municipality, British Columbia.
- Salmon River (Proper name) A number of rivers and communities in Canada:; A tributary of Shuswap Lake, in the Shuswap region, British Columbia.
- Salmon River (Proper name) A number of rivers and communities in Canada:; A river on Moresby Island, in the Haida Gwaii archipelago, British Columbia.
- Stikine (Proper name) A river in northwestern British Columbia and southeast Alaska.
- Sumas (Proper name) A placename; Ellipsis of Sumas River.; A river in Fraser Lowland, Cascades Range, North American Cordillera, North America, Americas, whose headwaters originate on American Sumas, and flows in the Fraser Lowland, between Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada and Whatcom, Washington, United States
- Tatlow (Proper name) A placename; Ellipsis of Tatlow Creek.; A river whitewater-rated in Ashlu Valley, Squamish, Coastal, British Columbia, Canada, tributary of Ashlu Creek
- Vancouver (Proper name) A river in southern British Columbia, Canada.
- Vermilion River (Proper name) A river in Canada:; A river in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia.
- White River (Proper name) Several rivers:; A major tributary of the Kootenay River, British Columbia, Canada; it is 40 miles long.
- White River (Proper name) Several rivers:; A tributary of the Salmon River, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
- White River (Proper name) Several rivers:; A tributary of the Nass River, British Columbia, Canada.
- Yukon (Proper name) A river in British Columbia, the Yukon Territory and Alaska, which gives its name to the territory.
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