Copper City
| Feature Type: | District Municipality (1) - A populated place with legally defined boundaries, incorporated as a district municipality under the provincial Municipal Act. |
| Status: |
Not official
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| Relative Location: | N end Windermere Lake, SE of Golden, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°30'20"N, 116°01'49"W at the approximate location of the Municipal Hall. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82K/9 |
| Related Maps: |
82K/8 82K/9 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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In 1890, in consequence of some local mining excitement, Edmumd T. Johnson laid out a townsite here and named it Copper City. In 1900 the Canterbury Townsite Company took over the site and renamed it after the famous cathedral city in England. Finally, the Columbia Valley Irrigation Fruit Lands Comany acquired the site and the name was changed to Invermere.... Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |