The Kimsquit River is a
river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of w ...
in the
Kitimat Ranges
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of the
Coast Mountains in
British Columbia
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,
Canada
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, flowing into the head of
Dean Channel Dean Channel is the upper end of one of the longest inlets of the British Columbia Coast, from its head at the mouth of the Kimsquit River. The Dean River, one of the main rivers of the Coast Mountains, enters Dean Channel about below the head o ...
, one of the major inlets of the
Central Coast region.
Name
The name
Kimsquit is associated with a former
Nuxalk
The Nuxalk people ( Nuxalk: ''Nuxalkmc''; pronounced )'','' also referred to as the Bella Coola, Bellacoola or Bilchula, are an Indigenous First Nation of the Pacific Northwest Coast, centred in the area in and around Bella Coola, British Co ...
village at the mouth of the
Dean River
The Dean River is one of the major rivers of the Kitimat Ranges subrange of the southern Coast Mountains in British Columbia. It begins at Aktaklin Lake on the Chilcotin Plateau and winds north around the Rainbow Range to enter Dean Channel at th ...
, just to the southeast of the mouth of the Kimsquit River. It is also the namesake of
Kimsquit Peak, which is east of the mouth of the Kimsquit River and immediately north of the mouth of the Dean, and of
Kimsquit Ridge, which is alongside the Kimsquit River on its west side a few miles upstream from its mouth.
Comet Mountain is immediately southwest of the mouth of the Kimsquit.
See also
*
List of British Columbia rivers
Further reading
* HAMILTON M. LAING, '
BIRDS OF THE COAST OF CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'', July, 1942, PP 177, 179
* Brian Ratty, '
Dutch Clarke - The Early Years''
References
Rivers of the Kitimat Ranges
Rivers of the Central Coast of British Columbia
Range 3 Coast Land District
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