Kootenay National Park of Canada
Feature Type:Parc national - (National Park) Legally defined land area, under federal jurisdiction, for camping, outdoor recreation and preservation of wildlife.
Status: Official
Other Names: Parc national du Canada KootenayOfficial
Name Authority: BC Geographical Names Office
Relative Location: Adjoining BC-Alberta boundary, E of Columbia River, SE of Golden, Kootenay Land District
Latitude-Longitude: 50°56'59"N, 116°02'03"W at the approximate centre of this feature.
Datum: WGS84
NTS Map: 82K/16
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Origin Notes and History:

Kootenay National Park was established by Privy Council Order in 1920. "Kootenay National Park" and "Parc national Kootenay" were confirmed by Parks Canada 30 June 1989. The expanded forms "Kootenay National Park of Canada" and "Parc national du Canada Kootenay" are identified in the publication Canada's Geographical Names Approved in English and French, published August 2002 by the Geographical Names Board of Canada.

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

".... established as part of an agreement between the provincial and federal governments to build the Banff-Windermere Highway [known today as the Kootenay Parkway], the first motor road to cross the Canadian Rockies. Completion of the highway in 1922 opened a new age of tourism in the Canadian Rockies..... One of seven national and provincial parks that comprise the 26,583 sq. km Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site..." ( from Parks Canada website, April 2001.)

Source: included with note