Canoe Creek is a creek flowing generally west in a zigzag course into the Fraser River in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, Canada, joining that river south of Gang Ranch.BC Names/GeoBC entry "Canoe Creek (creek)"
Name Though one source says the name derives from a canoe early miners found at the location, the original version of the name in French was , so named because it was here that explorer Simon Fraser cached his canoe and continued his journey southward down the river on foot. His crew named the location Le Canot.BC Names/GeoBC entry "Canoe Creek (creek)"
Related placenames Canoe Creek is the namesake of three of the Indian reserves of the Canoe Creek Band/Dog Creek Indian Band: Canoe Creek Indian Reserve No. 1 Canoe Creek Indian Reserve No. 2 Canoe Creek Indian Reserve No. 3
See also Canoe Creek (disambiguation)
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