Coquitlam River flows from Coquitlam Lake, through
New Westminster, and into
the Fraser, just west of
Pitt River. It draws its name, along with other features that bear the same, from the Anglicization
of Kwikwetlem: the people who have inhabited the river and surrounding region continuously
for thousands of years.
1 The Kwikwetlem First Nation is now part of the larger Stó:lō group; Kwikwetlem is
Halkomelem for
red fish up the river.
2