Chase River
The Chase River, known in the Hulquminum language as Kulwulton,[1] is a river on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, discharging into the Gulf of Georgia at the south end of Nanaimo Harbour.[2] It is the namesake of the Nanaimo neighbourhood of Chase River.
History
In the winter of 1852–53, a Scottish shepherd, Peter Brown, was killed by two natives, one a Cowichan the other a Snuneymuxw (Nanaimo). The Snuneymuxw, hearing that the governor and troops would be hunting him, fled and was easily captured because of fresh-falling snow making his tracks easy to find. The "chase" ended at this river.[3]
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