# Bourgeaux Creek

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Tributary river in the country of Canada

Bourgeaux Creek Mouth of Bourgeaux Creek Location Country Canada Province British Columbia District Cassiar Land District Physical characteristics Source East side of Raspberry Pass • location Tahltan Highland • coordinates 57°29′57″N 130°40′27″W / 57.49917°N 130.67417°W / 57.49917; -130.67417[3] • elevation 1,475 m (4,839 ft)[2] Mouth Little Iskut River • coordinates 57°30′13″N 130°26′48″W / 57.50361°N 130.44667°W / 57.50361; -130.44667[1][2] • elevation 850 m (2,790 ft)[2] Length 17 km (11 mi)[4] Basin size 104 km2 (40 sq mi)[5] Discharge • average 3.46 m3/s (122 cu ft/s)[5] Basin features Topo map NTS 104G10 Mount Edziza

**Bourgeaux Creek** is a [tributary](/source/Tributary) of the [Little Iskut River](/source/Little_Iskut_River) and part of the [Stikine River](/source/Stikine_River) [watershed](/source/Drainage_basin) in northwest part of the [province](/source/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada) of [British Columbia](/source/British_Columbia), [Canada](/source/Canada).[1][6] It flows generally east for roughly 17 km (11 mi)[4] to join the Little Iskut River, a tributary of the [Iskut River](/source/Iskut_River), which in turn is the largest tributary of the Stikine River. [Gerlib Creek](/source/Gerlib_Creek) joins Bourgeaux Creek about 5 km (3.1 mi) upstream of Bourgeaux's confluence with the Little Iskut River.[4]

Bourgeaux Creek's mean annual [discharge](/source/Discharge_(hydrology)) is estimated at 3.46 m3/s (122 cu ft/s). Its watershed covers 104 km2 (40 sq mi) and is entirely in [Mount Edziza Provincial Park](/source/Mount_Edziza_Provincial_Park). The watershed's [land cover](/source/Land_cover) is classified as 37.7% [barren](/source/Barren_vegetation), 29.0% [conifer forest](/source/Conifer), 14.8% [shrubland](/source/Shrubland), 13.0% [herbaceous](/source/Herbaceous_plant), 4.6% [snow](/source/Snow)/[glacier](/source/Glacier), and small amounts of other cover.[5]

The mouth of Bourgeaux Creek is located about 60 km (37 mi) southeast of [Telegraph Creek](/source/Telegraph_Creek), British Columbia, about 110 km (68 mi) south of [Dease Lake](/source/Dease_Lake), British Columbia, and about 250 km (160 mi) southeast of [Juneau, Alaska](/source/Juneau%2C_Alaska).[4]

Bourgeaux Creek is in [Mount Edziza Provincial Park](/source/Mount_Edziza_Provincial_Park), which lies within the traditional territory of the [Tahltan First Nation](/source/Tahltan_First_Nation), of the [Tahltan](/source/Tahltan) people.[7][8]

## Geography

Bourgeaux Creek originates on the east side of [Raspberry Pass](/source/Raspberry_Pass), about 25 km (16 mi) south of [Mount Edziza](/source/Mount_Edziza). Raspberry Pass forms a boundary between the [Spectrum Range](/source/Spectrum_Range) to the south and the Mount Edziza area to the north.[9][10] From its source, Bourgeaux Creek flows east, collecting a number of unnamed tributary streams. The one named tributary, [Gerlib Creek](/source/Gerlib_Creek), joins Bourgeaux Creek from the north, about 5 km (3.1 mi) upstream of Bourgeaux's mouth at the Little Iskut River. [Artifact Ridge](/source/Artifact_Ridge) lies on the south side of Bourgeaux Creek's watershed. Significant mountains on the north side include [Hoyaa Peak](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyaa_Peak&action=edit&redlink=1), [Esja Peak](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Esja_Peak&action=edit&redlink=1), [Armadillo Peak](/source/Armadillo_Peak), [Tadeda Peak](/source/Tadeda_Peak), and [Cache Hill](/source/Cache_Hill).[2][11]

## History

Bourgeaux Creek was named for F. Bourgeaux, a member of the [Western Union Telegraph Company](/source/Western_Union_Telegraph_Company) party which, in 1866, explored the area for an overland telegraph route to Europe via Alaska, the Bering Strait and Asia.[1] That telegraph was never built, but the nearly 3,000-kilometre-long (1,900-mile) [Yukon Telegraph Line](/source/Yukon_Telegraph_Trail) was constructed by the Dominion Government Telegraph Service between 1897 and 1901 to send messages from [Ashcroft, British Columbia](/source/Ashcroft%2C_British_Columbia) in the south to [Dawson City](/source/Dawson_City), [Yukon](/source/Yukon) in the north.[12] This telegraph line followed Bourgeaux Creek to Raspberry Pass, then continued down [Raspberry Creek](/source/Raspberry_Creek_(British_Columbia)), thence north to the community of [Telegraph Creek](/source/Telegraph_Creek) on the Stikine River.[11] The Yukon Telegraph Line operated until 1936 and only remnants remain today. The historic Yukon Telegraph Trail follows its route.[13][14]

## See also

- [List of rivers of British Columbia](/source/List_of_rivers_of_British_Columbia)

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-bcgnis_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-bcgnis_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-bcgnis_1-2) ["Bourgeaux Creek"](https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/451.html). *[BC Geographical Names](/source/BC_Geographical_Names)*. Government of British Columbia – B.C. Geographical Names Office (BCGNO).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-toporama_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-toporama_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-toporama_2-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-toporama_2-3) ["Toporama (on-line map and search)"](http://atlas.gc.ca/toporama/en/index.html). *[Atlas of Canada](/source/Atlas_of_Canada)*. [Natural Resources Canada](/source/Natural_Resources_Canada). Retrieved 28 September 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Derived from BCGNIS, topographic maps, and [Toporama](https://atlas.gc.ca/toporama/en/index.html)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-length_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-length_4-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-length_4-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-length_4-3) Lengths and distances measured using BCGNIS coordinates, topographic maps, online map servers, and [Toporama](https://atlas.gc.ca/toporama/en/index.html)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-watertool_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-watertool_5-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-watertool_5-2) ["Northwest Water Tool"](https://nwwt.bcwatertool.ca). *BC Water Tool*. GeoBC, Integrated Land Management Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, Government of British Columbia. Retrieved 4 October 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Bourgeaux Creek"](https://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique?id=JABAG). *[Geographical Names Data Base](/source/GeoBase_(geospatial_data)#Geographical_Names_Data_Base)*. [Natural Resources Canada](/source/Natural_Resources_Canada).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Our Territory"](https://tahltan.org/our-territory). Tahltan Central Government. Retrieved 29 September 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["Dah Ki Mi — "Our House""](https://tahltan.ca/nation/territory). Tahltan Band Council. Retrieved 29 September 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-BC_Parks_9-0)** ["Mount Edziza Provincial Park"](https://web.archive.org/web/20230123120553/https://bcparks.ca/explore/parkpgs/mt_edziza/). [BC Parks](/source/BC_Parks). Archived from [the original](https://bcparks.ca/explore/parkpgs/mt_edziza/) on 2023-01-23. Retrieved 2023-07-31.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Souther_10-0)** [Souther, J. G.](/source/Jack_Souther) (1992). The Late Cenozoic Mount Edziza Volcanic Complex, British Columbia. *[Geological Survey of Canada](/source/Geological_Survey_of_Canada)* (Report). Memoir 420. Canada Communication Group. pp. 3, 32. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.4095/133497](https://doi.org/10.4095%2F133497). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-660-14407-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-660-14407-7).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-mapbook_11-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-mapbook_11-1) Mussio, Russell; Mussio, Wesley (2018). [*Northern BC Backroad Mapbook*](https://books.google.com/books?id=pBAFEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA99). Mussio Ventures. p. 99. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-926806-87-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-926806-87-7). Retrieved 28 September 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-KE_12-0)** ["Yukon Telegraph Trail"](https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=17944). [Canadian Register of Historic Places](/source/Canadian_Register_of_Historic_Places). Retrieved 2023-09-26.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-RG_13-0)** ["Mount Edziza Provincial Park"](https://web.archive.org/web/20230123120553/https://bcparks.ca/explore/parkpgs/mt_edziza/). [BC Parks](/source/BC_Parks). Archived from [the original](https://bcparks.ca/explore/parkpgs/mt_edziza/) on 2023-01-23. Retrieved 2021-10-21.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-14)** Miller, Bill (2004). ["The Early Years: Discontent and Description"](https://books.google.com/books?id=TSLtYpkG-zwC&pg=PA122). *Wires in the Wilderness: The Story of the Yukon Telegraph*. Heritage House Publishing. pp. 122–138. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-894384-58-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-894384-58-2). Retrieved 6 October 2023.

v t e Rivers of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex by drainage basin Iskut River Artifact Creek, Ball Creek, Bourgeaux Creek, Gerlib Creek, Little Iskut River, More Creek, Stewbomb Creek Kakiddi Creek Chakima Creek, Nido Creek, Pyramid Creek, Shaman Creek, Sorcery Creek, Tenchen Creek, Tennaya Creek, Tsecha Creek Mess Creek Crayke Creek, Elwyn Creek, Flyin Creek, Kadeya Creek, Kitsu Creek, Nagha Creek, Raspberry Creek, Sezill Creek, Tadekho Creek, Taweh Creek, Walkout Creek

v t e Mount Edziza volcanic complex Cinder cones The Ash Pit Cache Hill Camp Hill Cinder Cliff Cocoa Crater Coffee Crater Eve Cone Exile Hill Icefall Cone Kana Cone Keda Cone Klastline Cone Mess Lake Cone Moraine Cone Nahta Cone Outcast Hill Ridge Cone Sidas Cone Sleet Cone Source Hill Storm Cone Thaw Hill Triplex Cones Twin Cone Walkout Creek centres Williams Cone Subglacial volcanoes Pillow Ridge Tennena Cone Tsekone Ridge Wetalth Ridge Central volcanoes Armadillo Peak Mount Edziza Ice Peak Spectrum Range Lava domes Glacier Dome IGC Centre Nanook Dome Pharaoh Dome The Pyramid Sphinx Dome Triangle Dome Lava fields Desolation Lava Field Mess Lake Lava Field Snowshoe Lava Field Plateaus Arctic Lake Plateau Big Raven Plateau Kitsu Plateau Ridges Artifact Ridge Cartoona Ridge Idiji Ridge Obsidian Ridge Pillow Ridge Sorcery Ridge Tsekone Ridge Wetalth Ridge Yagi Ridge Mountain passes Destell Pass Raspberry Pass Bluffs Koosick Bluff Ornostay Bluff Glaciers Idiji Glacier Tenchen Glacier Tencho Glacier Tennaya Glacier Streams Artifact Creek Ball Creek Bourgeaux Creek Chakima Creek Crayke Creek Elwyn Creek Flyin Creek Gerlib Creek Kadeya Creek Kitsu Creek Little Iskut River More Creek Nagha Creek Nido Creek Pyramid Creek Raspberry Creek Sezill Creek Shaman Creek Sorcery Creek Stewbomb Creek Tadekho Creek Taweh Creek Tenchen Creek Tennaya Creek Tsecha Creek Walkout Creek Stratigraphic units Armadillo Formation Big Raven Formation (Sheep Track Member) Edziza Formation Ice Peak Formation Kakiddi Formation Klastline Formation Little Iskut Formation Nido Formation (Tenchen Member) Pyramid Formation Raspberry Formation Other Cartoona Peak Gnu Butte Mess Creek Escarpment Volcanism of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex

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