| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows NE. into Windermere Lake, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°26'23"N, 115°58'54"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82J/5 |
| Related Maps: |
82J/5 82K/8 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 2 July 1953 on Columbia River Basin manuscript MS 49, as labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After James Brady, mining engineer at Thunder Hill in the 1880's and '90's; later at Golden. Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |
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"After James Brady, BCLS, who lived at Windermere." [Note: one James Brady was commissioned as a Dominion Land Surveyor and a Provincial Land Surveyor, and surveyed in the Railway Belt 1891-1910; died 1916; one James Campbell Brady was commissioned as a BCLS in 1912; practised until 1926; no further details in BC files.] Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |