| 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: | Between Radium Hot Springs and Brisco on E side of upper Columbia River, N of Invermere, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°41'58"N, 116°08'07"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82K/9 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Edgewater (Post Office) adopted 4 March 1953 on Columbia River Basin manuscript 46, as labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Form of name changed to Edgewater (community) 15 December 1982 on 82K/9. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Edgewater Post Office was opened 15 July 1913, situated on Lot 12, Bl 1, Townsite E, being part of Lot 353, Gp 1, District of East Kootenay (Plan 2T116, Townsites locker). New location received 20 July 1939. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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In 1910-11 this 'townsite' was called Marlborough, in papers of Columbia Valley Orchards, the latter being incorporated and gazetted in 1911. (18 November 1967 letter to the Provincial Archives from Mrs. H.H. Moore, Box 130, Edgewater). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |