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==Beaver Rivers and then some==
I'm at the moment working on the Liard tributary's article, and will do the other Yukon one and the Selkirks one as i go on.  But in the course of trying to find BCGNIS refs I've uncovered a slew of places - including more htan one railway station and also a community (now [[Holmes River, British Columbia]] near [[McBride, British Columbia|McBride]] as well as other streams in BC that have had the name at some time; obscure or otherwise, or if only once-named long long ago, as with Shingle Creek near [[Penticton, British Columbia]] with [[Samuel Black]] had been the first (non-indigenous person) to give it a name - in the 1830s; it has been a Beaver Creek since; as noted in an inline comment Beaver Creeks are often referred to as Beaver Rivers.  That being said I haven't gone through the former-names database in Canadian GeoNames yet; could be ingeresting; not sure how such mentions could or should fit on a disambig page; but they all are/''were'' placename...anyway g'nite.  I think there's a fictional Beaver River or two, also[[User:Skookum1|Skookum1]] ([[User talk:Skookum1|talk]]) 05:23, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
:just found out a Nathan Creek in the [[Glen Valley]] area of the [[Township of Langley]], near my old home at [[Ruskin, British Columbia]], was a Beaver River; very near to [[Fort Langley]] so probably dating from that time; would have been a swampy slouhg in those days, now a drainage canal for a near-[[polder]] floodplain/farmland area - i.e. Glen Valley; I'm now getting curious how many "Beaver" placenames there are in total.....(user:pfly made a very interesting comparison map of gulch and hollow; a similar map of all Beaver River name locations, past and present, would be interesting; not useful, just interesting).[[User:Skookum1|Skookum1]] ([[User talk:Skookum1|talk]]) 05:28, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
::Here's all mentions of older/altnames with "Beaver River"
:::*[http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcgn-bin/bcg10?name=16298 BCGNIS "Shingle Creek"], flows into Okanagan River south of Penticton; named as Beaver River on [[Samuel Black]]'s map, 1835, only (Beaver Creek on Moberly's 1866 map).
:::*[http://ilmbwww.gov.bc.ca/bcgn-bin/bcg10?name=51215 BCGNIS "Beaver River (railway point)"] (Nathan Creek, Langley)
:::*[http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/bcgn-bin/bcg10?name=36686 BCGNIS "Foote Creek"] (on [[Porcher Island]], [[British Columbia Coast|North Coast of British Columbia]]; name was Beaver River from 1930 to 1952)
:::*[http://geonames2.nrcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/v8/sima_name_v8?english Canadian GeoNames Databaase "Beaver River" formerly official names]
::::*Beaver River Metis Colony => Buffalo Lake Metis Settlement 	Alta. 	Unincorporated area
::::*Beaver River Metis Settlement => Buffalo Lake Metis Settlement 	Alta. 	Unincorporated area
::::*Beaver River Metis Settlement => Kikino Metis Settlement 	Alta. 	Unincorporated area 	
::::*[[Holmes River, British Columbia]] and [[Holmes River]], which I just created articles/stubs for and added to this disambig
:::And just for fun [http://geonames2.nrcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/v8/sima_name_v8?english here is a Canadian GeoNames Database search for "Beaver"][[User:Skookum1|Skookum1]] ([[User talk:Skookum1|talk]]) 17:43, 10 June 2008 (UTC)