Schroeder Creek
| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows E into Kootenay Lake between Kaslo & Lardeau, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°02'08"N, 116°54'23"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82K/2 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in the 14th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1915, as labelled on Geological Survey sheet 791, West Kootenay, 1900 et seq. Re-approved 7 October 1947 on Columbia River Basin manuscript 11. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Apparently so-named on an 1894 map of East & West Kootenay (title not cited). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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A family by that name located in the vicinity of this creek; they had come to here from Spokane. Source: Laing, Frederick W; Geographical Naming Record, September 1938; unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives |