The Campbell River passes through
Surrey
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and
Langley, British Columbia,
Canada
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, entering
Semiahmoo Bay at the
Semiahmoo Indian Reserve
The Semiahmoo Indian Reserve ( ) is a 129.1-hectare Indian reserve in the Lower Mainland, British Columbia, located on Semiahmoo Bay between the City of White Rock and Peace Arch Park, which sits astride the international boundary with Washington ...
, which lies between the City of
White Rock and
Peace Arch Park
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on the international boundary.
Originally labelled Campbell Creek in 1917 by the
Geographic Board of Canada
The Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) is a national committee with a secretariat in Natural Resources Canada, part of the Government of Canada, which authorizes the names used and name changes on official federal government maps of Canad ...
, it was labelled Tahtaloo on International Boundary Survey sheet 2 (date not cited) (a toponym derived from Tah-tu-lo, the Semiahmoo endonym for their dialect of Straits Salish); variant spellings include Tahla too, Tah-la-loo, and Tah tu lo. It was probably named after Archibald Campbell,
US commissioner in the joint negotiations to locate the international boundary 1857–1862, who had his camp at the mouth of the creek. It was identified in the field notes of
Joseph Trutch's survey as Semiahmoo Creek in 1859. "Ta’talu" is the name used nowadays by the Semiahmoo First Nation residing in its vicinity.
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Tributaries (listed from the mouth up)
*Fergus Creek
*Sand Hill Creek
See also
*
Serpentine River
*
Nicomekl River
The Nicomekl River springs from the ground in Langley, British Columbia and travels west through the city to Surrey's Crescent Beach, where it empties into Mud Bay, the northernmost section of the Boundary Bay of the Strait of Georgia. It has a ...
References
Rivers of the Lower Mainland
New Westminster Land District
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