New Denver (Town) adopted 6 April 1926 on Geological Survey sheet 200A, as labelled on BC Lands' map 1EM, 1915. Incorporated as a Village Municipality 12 January 1929; New Denver (Village) confirmed 6 October 1955. Boundary amendment effective 8 September 1993, gazette date 21 October 1993; confirmed 13 July 1993 on 82 F/14.

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

Formerly Eldorado City. Re-named in 1892 by R. Fitzstubbs, gold commissioner, after the prosperous mining town of Denver Colorado, in the hope that the new name would bring better luck to the miners in the vicinity. New Denver Post Office was opened 1 September 1892. See also the municipality's own website.

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

"When the surveyor, Perry, needed a name for the settlement in 1891, he chose El Dorado, presumably hoping that the mines would make it as rich as the legendary city of gold. The next year, when it had become clear that not gold, but silver and lead constituted the mineral wealth, a public meeting was called to decide on a more suitable name. At this meeting Thomas Latheen, who had come from Denver, Colorado, stoutly maintained that this little town would grow to be even greater than Denver, and he persuaded the citizens to adopt the name of New Denver for their settlement." ©

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