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Egnell Creek is a
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of the
Hackett River The Hackett River is a tributary of the Sheslay River in northwest part of the province of British Columbia, Canada. It flows generally northwest about ,Length measured using Google Maps path tool, BCGNIS coordinates, topographic maps, anTopoQuest/ ...
in northwest part of the
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of
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,
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. It flows generally southwest about Length measured using Google Maps path tool, BCGNIS coordinates, topographic maps, an
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/ref> to join the Hackett River near the Hackett's confluence with the
Sheslay River The Sheslay River is a tributary of the Inklin River in northwest part of the province of British Columbia, Canada. It joins the Nahlin River to form the Inklin River, one of the main tributaries of the Taku River. The lower Sheslay River marks t ...
, which in turn is a tributary of the
Inklin River The Inklin River (Lingít: ''Héen Tlein'') is a tributary of the Taku River in the northwest part of the province of British Columbia, Canada. It originates at the confluence of its two main tributaries, the Nahlin River and the Sheslay River an ...
, the main southeast fork of the
Taku River The Taku River (Tlingit language, Lingít: ''T'aaḵu Héeni'') is a river running from British Columbia, Canada, to the northwestern coast of North America, at Juneau, Alaska. The river basin spreads across . The Taku is a very productive salmon ...
. Mount Egnell is located near the creek's mouth, as is the historic locality known as Egnell or Sheslay, once a telegraph station on the Yukon Telegraph Line. Egnell Creek's
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covers , and its mean annual discharge is estimated at . The mouth of Egnell Creek is located about northwest of
Telegraph Creek Telegraph Creek is a small community located off Highway 37 in northern British Columbia at the confluence of the Stikine River and Telegraph Creek. The only permanent settlement on the Stikine River, it is home to approximately 250 members of ...
, British Columbia, about east of
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, and about southeast of
Whitehorse Whitehorse () is the capital of Yukon, and the largest city in Northern Canada. It was incorporated in 1950 and is located at kilometre 1426 (Historic Mile 918) on the Alaska Highway in southern Yukon. Whitehorse's downtown and Riverdale areas ...
, Yukon. Egnell Creek's watershed's
land cover Land cover is the physical material at the land surface of Earth. Land covers include flora, concrete, built structures, bare ground, and temporary water. Earth cover is the expression used by ecologist Frederick Edward Clements that has as ...
is classified as 46.1%
shrubland Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominance (ecology), dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbaceous plant, herbs, and geophytes. Shrubland may either occur naturally o ...
, 32.4%
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, 24.5% conifer forest, 12.8%
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, and small amounts of other cover. Egnell Creek is in the traditional territory of the
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Taku River Tlingit First Nation The Taku River Tlingit First Nation are the band government of the Inland Tlingit in far northern British Columbia, Canada and also in Yukon. They comprise two ''ḵwaan'' (tribes) of the Tlingit people, Tlingit people, who are otherwise coastal, ...
and the
Tahltan The Tahltan or Nahani are a First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group who live in northern British Columbia around Telegraph Creek, Dease Lake, and Iskut. The Tahltan constitute the fourth division of the ''Nahan ...
people.


Geography

Egnell Creek originates on the west flank of the massive
Level Mountain Level Mountain is a large volcanic complex in the British Columbia Interior, Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It is located north-northwest of Telegraph Creek and west of Dease Lake on the Nahlin Plateau. With a maximum elevatio ...
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, near the headwaters of the Little Tahltan River and
Dudidontu River The Dudidontu River is a tributary of the Nahlin River in northwest part of the province of British Columbia, Canada. It joins the Nahlin River, which forms the Inklin River, one of the main tributaries of the Taku River. The Dudidontu River's wat ...
, and about south of Meszah Peak, the highest peak of the
Level Mountain Range The Level Mountain Range is a small but prominent mountain range occupying the broad summit of Level Mountain in northern British Columbia, Canada. Located between the Tuya River in the east and the Sheslay River in the west, it represents a high ...
, a cluster of bare peaks on the summit of Level Mountain. The creek flows southwest through Level Mountain's high and relatively barren
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. After about Egnell Creek enters a steep canyon carved into the
escarpment An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that forms as a result of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively level areas having different elevations. Due to the similarity, the term '' scarp'' may mistakenly be incorrectly used inte ...
on Level Mountain's western side. Below the escarpment the landscape is dominated by coniferous forests. Egnell Creek continues southwest until it reaches the Hackett River at the former settlement of Sheslay, south of Mount Egnell and about east of the Hackett and Sheslay River confluence.


History

Egnell Creek is named for Albert Egnell, a miner, fur trader, and
Hudson's Bay Company The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), originally the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading Into Hudson’s Bay, is a Canadian holding company of department stores, and the oldest corporation in North America. It was the owner of the ...
(HBC) employee. In the 1880s Egnell was an employee of Rufus Sylvester, who had come to the region during the
Omineca Gold Rush The Omineca Gold Rush was a gold rush in British Columbia, Canada, in the Omineca Country, Omineca region of the Northern Interior of the province. Gold was first discovered there in 1861, but the rush did not begin until late in 1869 with the disc ...
. In 1888 the HBC bought from Sylvester the trading post that became known as Liard Post or
Lower Post Lower Post is an aboriginal community in the Stikine Region of northern British Columbia, Canada, located on Highway 97, the Alaska Highway, approximately southeast of Watson Lake, Yukon. Its historical mile designation is Mile 620. It is locat ...
, located about northeast of Egnell Creek. At this time Egnell joined the HBC and managed Liard Post. During the 1890s Egnell conducted various operations in northwestern British Columbia, sometimes for the HBC, sometimes independently. Albert Egnell was
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in the area near Egnell Creek in the 1880s. It was probably around this time that Egnell Creek and Mount Egnell were named. The HBC built a trading post sometime before 1898 near the mouth of Egnell Creek. This post, first known as Tackoo, then Egnell or Egnell Post, was abandoned by the HBC in the late 1890s. In the early 1900s its cabin served as a repair station for the long Yukon Telegraph Line, which extended from
Ashcroft, British Columbia Ashcroft is a village municipality that straddles the Thompson River in the Thompson Country region of south central British Columbia, Canada. East of British Columbia Highway 1, BC Highway 1 and on British Columbia Highway 97C, BC Highway 97C, t ...
to
Dawson City Dawson City is a town in the Canadian territory of Yukon. It is inseparably linked to the Klondike Gold Rush (1896–1899). Its population was 1,577 as of the 2021 census, making it the second-largest municipality in Yukon. History Prior t ...
, Yukon. Subsequently, a number of buildings and a mission house were constructed and the name changed to Sheslay. This settlement has since been abandoned. Today the Yukon Telegraph Trail follows the historic route of the Yukon Telegraph Line. After spending one winter at Egnell Post, Albert Egnell found that there was no trade to be done in the area and the post was subsequently abandoned. Egnell died on 22 June 1900, from an accidental gun shot to his leg five days earlier. He was buried at Liard Post. In 1891–1892, the HBC constructed a trail from the mouth of Egnell Creek, near the junction of the Sheslay and Hackett rivers to the southwestern slope of Level Mountain.


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 ...


References


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* {{Rivers of Level Mountain Cassiar Land District Level Mountain Nahlin Plateau Rivers of British Columbia Stikine Country Tahltan Tlingit