"Slade Creek (not Boulder Creek)" adopted June 1914 and published in the 14th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1915. Name changed to Bruce Creek January 1920; "Bruce Creek (not Boulder nor Slade)" published in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924.

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

Labelled "Boulder Creek" on BC map of the East & West Kootenay Districts", 1898 and 1902 editions; labelled "Bruce Creek" on BC map 1EM, 1915. Later that year (1915) BC submitted a recommendation to change the official name Slade Creek to Bruce Creek, to conform to local usage, but GBC decided to retain the name Slade. Labelled "Slade Creek" on Geological Survey sheet 165A, Windermere, 1918. Upon receiving letters of protest from Invermere residents, GBC adopted the name Bruce Creek (January 1920 letter from GBC, file W.1.15). Labelled "Paradise Creek" on another early map (title/date not cited on BC name card).

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

Named after Windermere resident Robert Randolph Bruce (1866-1942), prospector and president of Columbia Valley Irrigated Fruit Lands; Bruce arrived in the Kootenay in 1897, and with his partner H.C. Hammond owned the Paradise Mine and numerous other properties around Windermere Lake. Served as 13th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia 24 February 1926 - 1 August 1932; Canada's Ambassador to Japan 1936-38. (Newspaper clipping 22 January 1926, received July 1975, file H.1.54). (see also "The Men at Cary Castle" by S.W. Jackman, Victoria: Morris Printing, 1972, p. 129). Also Mount Bruce.

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

Headwaters at 50 27 - 116 24 on 82K/8.

Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa