Goldstream River (Vancouver Island)

Goldstream River (Vancouver Island)

:"This article is for the river near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. For the identically-named river in the Selkirk Mountains north of Revelstoke, British Columbia, see Goldstream River.

The Goldstream River is a river on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, flowing southeast, then north into Finlayson Arm at the head of Saanich Inlet on the northwest outskirts of Greater Victoria. The river's name derives from a small gold rush in its basin during the 1860s, and was originally Gold Stream.

ee also

*Goldstream Provincial Park
*Goldstream, British Columbia
*Leechtown, British Columbia

References

*BCGNIS|10297


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