Burrell Creek is a creek just north of

Grand Forks, British Columbia Grand Forks is a city in the Boundary Country of the Kootenays, West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Granby River, Granby and Kettle River (Columbia River tributary), Kettle Rivers, the latter ...

, in the Similkameen Division, Yale Land District, in an area known as 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 ...

. It flows south into the Granby River, of which it is a

tributary A tributary, or an ''affluent'', is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (''main stem'' or ''"parent"''), river, or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries, and the main stem river into which they ...

. It was named after

Martin Burrell Martin Burrell (19 October 1858 – 20 March 1938) was a Canadian politician. Born in Faringdon, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), Burrell emigrated to Canada as a young man, where he eventually became a fruit grower on a farm about two miles e ...

, MP for Yale—Cariboo from 1908 to 1917, and for

Yale Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges ch ...

from 1917 to 1920. Burrell was Minister of Agriculture and resided in the Grand Forks area.

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