Illecillewaet
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Proper noun
[edit]Illecillewaet
- A river and glacier in British Columbia, Canada, a tributary of the Columbia River.
- 1941 December, G. H. Soole, “The Mountain Section of the C.P.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 530:
- There is scanty room for a railway, and in many places the rails are wetted by the spray from the Illecillewaet, which is the Indian word for a raging torrent.