Drewry
| Feature Type: | Railway Point - A named railway siding, junction, flag stop or timing point with or without an agent. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | On CPR, N of Kootenay Landing on W side of Kootenay Lake, SE of Nelson, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°25'43"N, 116°48'59"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82F/7 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 7 December 1937 for Geological Survey sheet 603A, Nelson (file N.1.37). Re-approved 3 September 1947 on Columbia River Basin manuscript 8. Confirmed 16 July 1948 on 82F. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in association with Mount Drewry, in turn after William Stewart Drewry, DLS, PLS, in charge of early triangulation and photo-topographic surveys in the Kootenay Lake region, 1892 and 1894.... Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |