| 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 The Needles, Lower Arrow Lake, between Nakusp and Castlegar, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°52'14"N, 118°04'14"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82E/16 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Fauquier (Post Office & Steamer Landing) adopted 1 January 1953 on Columbia River Basin manuscript #15, as labelled on BC Lands map 1EM, 1915. Form of name changed to Fauquier (Community) 31 December 1982 on 82E/16. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Fauquier Post Office was opened 11 June 1913, named after F.G. Fauquier, gold commissioner for Arrow Lakes Mining Division about 1885. Source: BC place name cards, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |
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"Named after F.G. Fauquier, pioneer rancher and fruit grower, son of Bishop Fauquier of Algoma [Sault St. Marie, Ontario.] In the 1890's served as government agent, mining recorder, customs officer and first policeman at Nakusp." Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; 1001 British Columbia Place Names; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973. |