Origin Notes and History:
Adopted 2 March 1915 (Ottawa file OBF 0018).
Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff.
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Previously identified as "Number 2 Creek". Re-named during production of BC Lands' map 1EM, 1915, after Harold (Earnest?) Forster, member of the provincial legislature for the Columbia District. [served in that capacity 1912-16.] One H.E. Forester, prospector, is identified in BC Mines Reports 1894-1935.
Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff.
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"Mr. H.E. Forster, an Englishman who came to climb in the Selkirks in 1890... He settled in the Columbia Valley and was murdered at his ranch at Firlands [Radium] in 1939." (The Purcell Range of Britishy Columbia by J. Monroe Thorington, American Alpine Club, 1946, p.24)
Source: included with note
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