| Feature Type: | District Municipality (1) - A populated place with legally defined boundaries, incorporated as a district municipality under the provincial Municipal Act. |
| Status: | Not official |
| Other Names: | Copper City, InvermereOfficial |
| Relative Location: | N end Windermere Lake, SE of Golden, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°30'20"N, 116°01'49"W at the approximate location of the Municipal Hall. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82K/9 |
| Related Maps: |
82K/8 82K/9 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Canterbury (settlement) identified in 1909 BC Gazetteer. "Invermere (townsite), not Canterbury" adopted in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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In 1890, in consequence of some local mining excitement, Edmumd T. Johnson laid out a townsite here and named it Copper City. In 1900 the Canterbury Townsite Company took over the site and renamed it after the famous cathedral city in England. Finally, the Columbia Valley Irrigation Fruit Lands Comany acquired the site and the name was changed to Invermere..... Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; British Columbia Place Names; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997 |