| 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: | E side of Slocan River between Winlaw and Slocan, NW of Nelson, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°39'29"N, 117°30'44"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82F/12 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Perrys (Station) adopted 7 July 1955 on Columbia River Basin manuscript 64, located at 49° 40' 00" - 117° 30' 10" as identified in CPR timetables. Name rescinded in the 1973 Cumulative Supplement to the Gazetteer. Name reinstated as Perrys (Community) 23 February 1976 on 82F. Application altered 22 December 1986 on 82F/12, about 1 mile southwest to 49° 39' 30" - 117° 30' 40", the location formerly known as Perry Siding (settlement). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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This location identified as "Proctor Siding" on Geological Survey sheet 791, West Kootenay, by W.A. Brock, 1900; identified as "Perry" on Department on Interior Map of the Southern Railway Belt, 1911; identified as "Perry Siding" on BC Lands 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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Perry Siding Post Office was opened at Perrys (Station) 1 March 1907; closed 9 April 1949. (at the time of closing the post office was situtated on subdivision 12, Lot 383) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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(re-)named in association with Perry Ridge, in turn likely after Charles E. Perry, surveyor with CPR when the railway was built in 1897. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |