| Feature Type: | Station - [not currently used in BC.] A locality with a railway station. |
| Status: | Not official |
| Relative Location: | On CPR just E of Christina Lake, between Grand Forks and Rossland, Similkameen Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°08'59"N, 118°06'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82E/1 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 6 October 1955 on 82E, as labelled on BC map 4A, 1912, and on BC map 1EM, 1915. Rescinded 11 March 1971. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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A 30-car siding according to WTT 94, 31 October 1954; station to be abandoned according to notation in Fr. Supp. 64, 3 December 1966; identified in WTT 97 and 91, through 27 October 1968, then discontinued. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"A station on the Columbia & Western Railway in the McRae Creek valley, is named after the late J.A. Coryell, BCLS - an old timer in the Boundary." (Rupert W. Haggen, BCLS, Origin of Place Names in Boundary District, 1945 manuscript, file H.1.45.) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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John Abraham Coryell, LS, obtained his commission as a land surveyor sometime prior to the Land Surveyors' Act (BC) 1891. According to "Abstracts from Surveyors Reports 1887-1915", Coryell conducted surveys within the Railway Belt 1887, 1890; Cherry Creek 1891; Similkameen 1893; Kettle River 1896; Upper Fraser (Cariboo) 1910; died 1912. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |