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I'm at the moment working on the Liard tributary's article, and will do the other Yukon one and the Selkirks one as i go on. But in the course of trying to find BCGNIS refs I've uncovered a slew of places - including more htan one railway station and also a community (now Holmes River, British Columbia near McBride as well as other streams in BC that have had the name at some time; obscure or otherwise, or if only once-named long long ago, as with Shingle Creek near Penticton, British Columbia with Samuel Black had been the first (non-indigenous person) to give it a name - in the 1830s; it has been a Beaver Creek since; as noted in an inline comment Beaver Creeks are often referred to as Beaver Rivers. That being said I haven't gone through the former-names database in Canadian GeoNames yet; could be ingeresting; not sure how such mentions could or should fit on a disambig page; but they all are/were placename...anyway g'nite. I think there's a fictional Beaver River or two, alsoSkookum1 (talk) 05:23, 10 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
just found out a Nathan Creek in the Glen Valley area of the Township of Langley, near my old home at Ruskin, British Columbia, was a Beaver River; very near to Fort Langley so probably dating from that time; would have been a swampy slouhg in those days, now a drainage canal for a near-polder floodplain/farmland area - i.e. Glen Valley; I'm now getting curious how many "Beaver" placenames there are in total.....(user:pfly made a very interesting comparison map of gulch and hollow; a similar map of all Beaver River name locations, past and present, would be interesting; not useful, just interesting).Skookum1 (talk) 05:28, 10 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
Here's all mentions of older/altnames with "Beaver River"
BCGNIS "Shingle Creek", flows into Okanagan River south of Penticton; named as Beaver River on Samuel Black's map, 1835, only (Beaver Creek on Moberly's 1866 map).
