Bourgeaux Creek is a tributary of the

Little Iskut River The Little Iskut River is a tributary of the Iskut River in the northwest part of the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of British Columbia, Canada, in Cassiar Land District. From its source at Little Ball Lake in Mount Edziza Provincia ...

and part of the Stikine River

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in northwest part of the province of British Columbia, Canada. It flows generally east for roughly Lengths and distances measured using BCGNIS coordinates, topographic maps, online map servers, an
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/ref> to join the Little Iskut River, a tributary of the Iskut River, which in turn is the largest tributary of the Stikine River. Gerlib Creek joins Bourgeaux Creek about upstream of Bourgeaux's confluence with the Little Iskut River. Bourgeaux Creek's mean annual

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is estimated at . Its watershed covers , and is entirely in Mount Edziza Provincial Park. The watershed's

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is classified as 37.7%

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, 29.0%

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, 14.8%

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, 13.0%

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, 4.6% snow/ glacier, and small amounts of other cover. The mouth of Bourgeaux Creek is located about southeast of Telegraph Creek, British Columbia, about south of Dease Lake, British Columbia, and about southeast of

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. Bourgeaux Creek is in Mount Edziza Provincial Park, which lies within the traditional territory of the Tahltan First Nation, of the Tahltan people.

Geography

Bourgeaux Creek originates on the east side of

Raspberry Pass Raspberry Pass is a mountain pass in the Tahltan Highland of northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is located southeast of Telegraph Creek between the heads of Raspberry Creek and Bourgeaux Creek in Mount Edziza Provincial Park. Raspberry ...

, about south of Mount Edziza. Raspberry Pass forms a boundary between the

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to the south and the Mount Edziza area to the north. From its source, Bourgeaux Creek flows east, collecting a number of unnamed tributary streams. The one named tributary, Gerlib Creek, joins Bourgeaux Creek from the north, about upstream of Bourgeaux's mouth at the Little Iskut River.

Artifact Ridge Artifact Ridge is a mountain ridge extending southeast from the eastern side of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is bounded on the north by Bourgeaux Creek valley, on the south by Artifact Creek vall ...

lies on the south side of Bourgeaux Creek's watershed. Significant mountains on the north side include Hoyaa Peak, Esja Peak,

Armadillo Peak Armadillo Peak is a 7.5-million-year-old caldera, located about 3 km north of Bourgeaux Creek and northeast of Raspberry Pass, British Columbia, Canada. It is south of Mount Edziza and is overlapped by the Ice Peak central volcano, whi ...

, Tadeda Peak, and

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History

Bourgeaux Creek was named for F. Bourgeaux, a member of the Western Union Telegraph Company party which, in 1866, explored the area for an overland telegraph route to Europe via Alaska, the Bering Strait and Asia. That telegraph was never built, but the nearly

Yukon Telegraph Line Yukon (; ; formerly called Yukon Territory and also referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories. It also is the second-least populated province or territory in Canada, with a population of 43,964 as ...

was constructed by the Dominion Government Telegraph Service between 1897 and 1901 to send messages from Ashcroft, British Columbia in the south to Dawson City, Yukon in the north. This telegraph line followed Bourgeaux Creek to Raspberry Pass, then continued down Raspberry Creek, thence north to the community of Telegraph Creek on the Stikine River. The Yukon Telegraph Line operated until 1936 and only remnants remain today. The historic Yukon Telegraph Trail follows its route.

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{{Rivers of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex Cassiar Land District Mount Edziza volcanic complex Rivers of British Columbia Stikine Country Tahltan Tahltan Highland

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