Ain River (Haida Gwaii)

The Ain River is a river on Graham Island in the Haida Gwaii archipelago of the North Coast region of British Columbia, Canada, flowing southeast into Masset Inlet.[1]

This article is for the river on Graham Island in Haida Gwaii. For the river in France, see Ain (river)

Name

The name was conferred by George Dawson of the Geophysical Survey of Canada in 1878, who derived it from the Haida name Qua'nun.[2]

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See also
  • List of British Columbia rivers

References
  1. BC Names/GeoBC entry "Ain River"
  2. BC Names/GeoBC entry "Ain River"


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