| Feature Type: | Community - An unincorporated populated place, generally with a population of 50 or more, and having a recognized central area that might contain a post office, store and/or community hall, etc, intended for the use of the general public in the region. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | In Yoho National Park, NE of Golden, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°23'44"N, 116°29'17"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82N/8 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Field (Station) adopted 1 March 1904 in the 5th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada. Identified as Field (Post Office & Flag Station) in the 1930 BC Gazetteer, then Field (Post Office) in the 1953 Gazetteer. Confirmed as Field (Post Office & Station) 1 May 1958 on 82N/8. Form of name changed to Field (community) 31 March 1983 on 82N/8. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Field Post Office was opened in 1886. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named by CPR railway officials in 1884, after Cyrus West Field (1819-1892), an American merchant who had laid the first Atlantic cable, 1858, and a second line in 1866; Mr. Field was visiting the Canadian Rockies the year that CPR named the station and nearby mountain after him. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |