| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows S into Lardeau Creek, NE of outlet of Trout Lake, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°40'28"N, 117°28'23"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82K/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Ferguson Creek (not North Fork Lardeau Creek)" adopted in the 14th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1915, as labelled on BC Lands' map 1EM, 1915. Named in association with Ferguson (settlement) Source: BC place name cards, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |
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The Ferguson brothers, David & Andrew, were prospectors associated with numerous silver-lead claims in the Lardeau area in the 1890s. David Ferguson died at Saanichton in 1903; Andrew Ferguson was still living in Vancouver in 1949. See also Ferguson (locality) Source: BC place name cards, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |
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"David Ferguson was a propsector in that vicinity and resided in the town of Ferguson, which acquired its name from him." Source: Laing, Frederick W; Geographical Naming Record, September 1938; unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives |