| 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: | S side of Nine Mile Narrows, West Arm Kootenay Lake, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°35'59"N, 117°10'03"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82F/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 7 October 1947 on Columbia River Basin manuscript 10, as identified in CPR timetables from 1933. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Russell's Spur" is identified in this position on BC map 1EM, 1915. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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CPR Freight Table 1933, p.9, locates Atbara between Sirdar and Kootenay, but the railway point has since been relocated about 50 miles. CPR Timetable, Nelson Subdivision, 1947, locates Atbara between Trout and Harrop (letter March 1947 from Surveyor General, Ottawa, file C.1.47) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |