History
David Thompson traveled along the Elk River in 1811, and called it the Stag River. James Sinclair's second settlement expedition to Oregon Country from the Red River Colony made a difficult crossing from the Kananaskis River valley into the Columbia-Kootenays via the Elk in 1854. The river was labeled Elk River on John Palliser's 1857-8 map and "Stag or Elk River" on Arrowsmith's 1862 map.
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