Deadman River

The river's name dates back to 1817, when Pierre Charette of the North West Company was killed by his travelling companion in a quarrel over the campsite.

Other names the river has had include Knife, Dead, Defeant, Rivière du Défunt, and similar variants.

[1] According to George Mercer Dawson the Shuswap name for the river is Hai in wohl, meaning a circle or detour.

It flows south to join the Thompson River near Savona, west of Kamloops Lake.

The lower portion of the river's route was a component in the Hudson's Bay Brigade Trail linking Fort Vancouver to the New Caledonia fur district and during the Cariboo Gold Rush was adopted by overland travellers heading north via the Okanagan to the Cariboo.