Nelsons Creek is a roughly three km long creek in the Cariboo region, near the historic mining town of Barkerville, that flows northward into Slough Creek.
In this 1862 despatch, Douglas notes Nelson Dutoux, a native of Lower Canada, as the discoverer of Nelson's Creek.
The Colonial Despatches Team.
Nelson's Creek.The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. The Colonial Despatches Team. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria.
https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/nelsons_creek.html.
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