The Campbell River passes through
Surrey
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and
Langley, British Columbia,
Canada
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, entering
Semiahmoo Bay
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at the
Semiahmoo Indian Reserve, 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, 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
*
List of rivers of British Columbia
The following is a partial list of rivers of British Columbia, organized by drainage basin, watershed. Some large creeks are included either because of size or historical importance
(See Alphabetical List of British Columbia rivers ). Also includ ...
*
Serpentine River
*
Nicomekl River
References
Rivers of the Lower Mainland
New Westminster Land District
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