North Arm


North Arm (49˚12'00" 123˚05'00" Mouth of the Fraser R, separating Sea I and Lulu I from Vancouver and Burnaby). The section of the Fraser R N of Sea I was known, until at least the 1920s, as the N Fork of the N Arm. The S Fork of the N Arm (today known as Middle Arm, qv) ran between Sea I and Lulu I. While this terminology, technically speaking, is correct, entrenched local usage led the hydrographic service, in the 1930s, to change the official description of the N Arm, extending it from New...

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