Colebrook
| Feature Type: | Railway Point - A named railway siding, junction, flag stop or timing point with or without an agent. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | On Burlington Northern Railway, N of Mud Bay in Surrey, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°05'59"N, 122°52'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/2 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 11 February 1936 on 92G/2 as labelled on BC map 2B, 1914. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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On Geological Survey maps. Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |
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Originally named Oliver's, after John Oliver (1856-1927) settler in 1882, who later served as premier of British Columbia 1918-27. In 1909 objectors to this name verbally asked GNR officials to change it to Coldbrook; inadvertently it was made Colebrook. Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |