| Feature Type: | Locality - A named place or area, generally with a scattered population of 50 or less. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W side Salmo River, S of Nelson, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°22'59"N, 117°14'03"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82F/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Hall (station), not Hall's" adopted 2 March 1948 on 82F/6 as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Form of name changed to Hall (locality) 16 December 1975 on 82F/6. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Hall Post Office was opened 1 May 1898 on the Nelson & Fort Shepherd branch of the Great Northern Railway; closed 8 January 1904; re-opened 1 October 1914 at Lot 1241 on the GNR line; closed 31 March 1925. Had been labelled "Halls" on BC Mines map of East & West Kootenay Districts, 1898, and on Geological Survey of Canada map West Kootenay, 1908, and on BC maps 4B, 1912 and 1EM, 1915. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |