| Feature Type: | Hotsprings / Hot Springs - Site of a natural flow of hot or warm water issuing from the ground. Plural of Hotspring / Hot Spring. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | In Kootenay National Park, N. of Windermere Lake, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°38'02"N, 116°02'21"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82K/9 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 12 May 1965 on 82K/NE as a long-established name. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Until about 1915 these were called Sinclair Hot Springs. An analysis of the water was made at McGill University 14 May 1912, and it was discovered to contained radioactive particles - hence the change of name. "The natural temperature of the main spring of the Sinclair/Radium Hot Springs in Kootenay National Park....is about 114 degrees Fahrenheit. The radioactivity is unusually high and it is believed that their theraputic efficacy may be partly due to this fact" ("Natural Resources", Canada, July 1929). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |