Tracy Creek adopted in the 5th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 30 June 1904, as identified in BC Mines Reports from 1895 onward, and as labelled on BC Mines' map Southern Portion of East & West Kootenay Districts, 1898, and on Geological Survey of Canada sheet 771, East Kootenay District, 1902, etc. Origin/significance not recorded.

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

"Tracy Creek runs in a south-westerly direction from the Rocky Mountains to a point some ten or twelve miles up the valley of the Kootenay River from Fort Steele, and then disappears underground near the new town of Tracy, in the immediate vicinity of which a number of locations have been made, the majority as yet [un-]developed." (1898 BC Mines Report, p.1031). Labelled on BC Lands' map 30 (later 4C), Cranbrook, 1912, as flowing southwest through Lot 2898 thence in a general southwesterly direction toward Kootenay River. The 1936 edition of BC Lands' map 4A indicates that Tracy Creek had been diverted northwest in Lot 2898 and now flows northwesterly through Lot 2897 thence into Lewis Creek.

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

"History of Exploration and Development of the ESTELLA property: The property is located at approximately 6,600 feet elevation at the head of Tracy Creek, 10.5 miles north of Fort Steele and 5 miles east of Wasa. The showings were discovered and staked in October 1895 as the Stella and Cashier claims by Messrs. Tracey and Bedford [Bradford], who the following year took in as partners Messrs. Scott and Mintz [Mutz]...." << http://www.em.gov.bc.ca/dl/PropertyFile/NMI/082G13_Zn1.pdf >> (Citation located and provided March 2009 by historian Rupert Lloyd Thomas, Toronto, with the following comment: "I suspect Tracey may have been Frank Tracey of Fort Steele..." ). See also Tracy (former locality).

Source: included with note