Cambie (Station) adopted 30 September 1932 on 82L/NE, as re-named by CPR and identified in 1930 BC Gazetteer, not Bowie (Station) as had been identified in 1909 BC Gazetteer and labelled on Dominion Sectional sheet 112, Sicamous, 1919 & 1915, and on BC map 1EM, 1915.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

Note that the original "Cambie" CPR railway point was located at the top of a switchback on the main track, just 3 miles west of Glacier, as labelled on Dominion Sectional sheet 163, Donald, 1912 & 1915. Sometime in the 1920s the track was straightened and the railway point was closed. To retain the name "Cambie", CPR renamed the station previously known as Bowie, because of its proximity to Craigellachie.

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Renamed by CPR after Henry John Cambie, CE (1836-1928), who from 1874 served the CPR in British Columbia long and faithfully in its survey, its construction and its operation and extension (Provincial Archives of BC, Place Names File, and 1962 letter, file S.3.27). Biography published in McLeans Magazine, 1923 (date not cited). Additional biographical detail and photograph published in The Engineering Journal, June 1957. See also Cambie (Station) near Vancouver.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office