City of Rossland incorporated 18 March 1897; confirmed in the 17th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1922, and 2 June 1950 on 82F/4.

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

Rossland Post Office was opened 1 March 1895. 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

Named after a miner, Ross Thompson, who in 1890, located and pre-empted claims of 160 acres, obtained title, plotted it as a townsite and preceeded to build. He had called the townsite "Thompson", but as there already was a town with that name in BC, changed the name to Rossland. "We are requested to say that the owners of the townsite at the Trail Creek mines have changed the name from Thompson to Rossland" (The Miner, 8 September 1894). Or, this slight variation: "When the LeRoi, Lily May, Centre Star and War Eagle claims were staked in 1889-90, miner Ross Thompson had a small cabin nearby. He came and went, prospected and hunted. His log cabin was his castle, and the locals referred to "Ross' Land" somewhat ironically. After word of the richness of the new camp became known, the incoming prospectors, miners and capitalists continued to use the name "Rossland"." (Nelson Daily News, 20 June 1928)

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