Bonaparte River, named after the famous French figure, flows into the
Thompson River at Ashcroft, in
British Columbia's southern interior. Variant spellings for this feature include “Bonepates River”,
as noted on Archibald McDonald's HBC map of the region in 1827, as well as “Bonaparte's
River”, from
Anderson's 1846 map, but on
Trutch's 1871 map of
BC it was misspelled as “Bonapate River”. In this 1861 despatch,
Douglas refers to it as
Buonaparte River,
and notes that he intends to follow it to get to
Cayoosh,
where he expects
to meet with many settlers.