| Feature Type: | Railway Point - A named railway siding, junction, flag stop or timing point with or without an agent. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | On CPR, E side of upper Columbia River, S of Brisco, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°45'59"N, 116°13'03"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82K/16 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 20 January 1955 on Columbia River Basin MS #45, as identified in CPR timetables, and as labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915, and as listed in the 19th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 1927, and in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Probably after the town in Upper Egypt". (Place Names of the Rocky mountains....., Transactions, Royal Society of Canada, Sec II, 1916). Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |
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"After the Shriner's Temple at St. John, New Brunswick." Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; British Columbia Place Names; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997 |