5200 SKATEEN AVE. |
British Columbia Tourism Region : Northern BC
Description From Owner:
Kwinatahl RiverTchitin River
- Gitzyon Creek - From a Nisgha Indian word meaning 'people of the glacier.'
- Kinskuch River - From the Nisgha Indian word meaning 'place of transporting things in stages [in difficult passage]' that is, place of portage.
- Kwinamuck Lake - From the Nisgha Indian word meaning 'place of cow parsnip.' The name refers to the use of the stems as drinking straws.
- Kwinatahl River - From the Nisgha Indian word meaning 'place of strips of cedar bark.'
- Tchitin River - From the Nisgha Indian word meaning 'fish weir river.'
- With permission from G.P.V and Helen B. Akrigg 1997 British Columbia Place Names. UBC Press.
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