Bowie
| Feature Type: | Railway Point - A named railway siding, junction, flag stop or timing point with or without an agent. |
| Status: | Not official |
| Other Names: | CambieOfficial |
| Relative Location: | On CPR, E of Shuswap Lake, just NE of Sicamous, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°53'59"N, 118°52'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/15 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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As identified in the 1909 BC Gazetteer and as labelled on Dominion Sectional sheet 112, Sicamous, 1912 & 1915, and on BC map 1EM, 1915. Cambie (Railway Station) adopted in this location 30 September 1932 as re-named by CPR (date not cited). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After W. Bowie, former roadmaster for CPR. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |