| Feature Type: | Community - An unincorporated populated place, generally with a population of 50 or more, and having a recognized central area that might contain a post office, store and/or community hall, etc, intended for the use of the general public in the region. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Just NW of junction of Slocan and Kootenay Rivers, NE of Castlegar, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°26'25"N, 117°35'30"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82F/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 5 March 1959 on 82F/SW as labelled on Land Use plan 2T64, June 1953. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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From the Russian words Krest, meaning "Cross" and Ova, meaning "city", so this probably means "City of the Cross" but it is not known why the name was chosen for this particular community. (October 1959 advice from Archivist). See also Doukhobor Genealogy Website: http://www.doukhobor.org/settlements.html (January 2008) Source: Provincial Archives' Place Names File (the "Harvey File") compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |
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"When the Doukhobors, a Russian religious sect, settled here they named their community Krestova, meaning 'the place of the cross'." 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 |