| Feature Type: | Locality - A named place or area, generally with a scattered population of 50 or less. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Just E of Lumby, E of Vernon, Osoyoos Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°14'59"N, 118°51'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/7 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Blue Springs (settlement) adopted 1 March 1956 on 82L/SE, as labelled on BC Lands & Works map of the West Division of Kootenay District, 1897 et seq; form of name changed to Blue Springs (Locality) 29 November 1984. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Blue Springs Post Office opened 1 October 1892, Alexander Macdonell PM; closed 1 February 1896. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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A nearby spring has worn a small basin in the ground in which the water looks blue. "BlueSpring" is labelled on Geological Survey of Canada's 1898 map 669, Shuswap, as a hydrographic feature. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |