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Blaeberry River

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- average
  
16.7 m/s (590 cu ft/s)

Discharge
  
16.7 m³/s

Mouth
  
Columbia River

- min
  
1.06 m/s (37 cu ft/s)

Province
  
British Columbia

Country
  
Canada

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- max
  
137 m/s (4,838 cu ft/s)

Rafting on the blaeberry river in golden bc with glacier raft company


The Blaeberry River is a tributary of the Columbia River in the Columbia Country of British Columbia, Canada, rising in the Canadian Rockies on the south side of Howse Pass and joining the Columbia midway between the town of Golden, at the confluence of the Kicking Horse River, and the east foot of the Rogers Pass, at the head of Kinbasket Lake and the mouth of the Beaver River. Its length is about 60 kilometres (37 mi).

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Map of Blaeberry River, Columbia-Shuswap A, BC, Canada

Known to explorer David Thompson in 1807 as Portage Creek, in 1811 another fur company explorer, Alexander Henry the younger, named it the "Blaeberry Torrent", after the abundant berry bushes seen lining its bank (these were likely huckleberries) - "Blae" is Scots language for "blue". The river has sometimes been incorrectly labelled the Blueberry River.

Blaeberry Falls is on the lower reaches of the river, approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) up from its confluence with the Columbia.

Snowmobile blaeberry river golden bc


Tributaries

  • Ebon Creek
  • Parapet Creek
  • Wildcat Creek
  • Collie Creek
  • Ensign Creek
  • Mummery Creek
  • Martin Creek
  • Split Creek
  • Willowbank Creek
  • Redburn Creek
  • Hedberg Creek
  • References

    Blaeberry River Wikipedia