| 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: | NW end Lake Koocanusa, SE of Cranbrook, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°24'59"N, 115°25'03"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82G/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Wardner (village) adopted on the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924, as labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915. Reapproved 12 December 1939 on 82/SE and 7 December 1950 on Columbia River Basin manuscript 53. Form of name changed to Wardner (Post Office and Station) 11 February 1963 on 82G/SW. Form of name changed to Wardner (community) 6 April 1981 on 82G/6. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after James Wardner, prospector and mining man from Bellingham. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After James F. ("Jim") Wardner who founded the town in 1895. Wardner established a number of townsites both in Canada and the United States - Wardner, Idaho among them. Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; 1001 British Columbia Place Names; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973. |