Boundary Creek is a tributary of the
Kettle River in the
Boundary Country
The Boundary Country is a historical designation for a district in southern British Columbia lying, as its name suggests, along the boundary between Canada and the United States. It lies to the east of the southern Okanagan Valley and to the west ...
region of south central
British Columbia
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. The creek is approximately in length, flowing from the northeast, passing east of
Midway, and only the final is in northeastern
Washington, US.
Significance
Sometimes called American Creek around 1860, Boundary Creek was the better-known name locally. In September 1860, the American and British surveyors locating the 49th parallel met from opposite directions near the creek. However, their parallels were apart, the American line proving the more accurate.
Discovered in 1859 by American prospectors, the gold-bearing creek was heavily mined over the next decade, and on a reduced scale over later decades. Gold nuggets then worth $50 were recovered.
Lost mine
Local historian
Bill Barlee speculates that the headwaters of Boundary Creek is the location of Henry Morgan's lost mine. Morgan was a resident of
Greenwood, British Columbia.
Provincial Park
The
Boundary Creek Provincial Park is along this creek. Fish species in Boundary Creek include
rainbow trout
The rainbow trout (''Oncorhynchus mykiss'') is a species of trout native to cold-water tributary, tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in North America and Asia. The steelhead (sometimes called steelhead trout) is an Fish migration#Classification, ...
and
brook trout.
References
External links
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Rivers of British Columbia
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