| Language of origin | English language |
| Feature Type: | Railway Point - A named railway siding, junction, flag stop or timing point with or without an agent. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | On CPR, W of head of Illecillewaet River in Glacier National Park, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°15'59"N, 117°31'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82N/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Glacier (Post Office & Station) adopted 12 December 1939 for BC Lands' map 5D, as identified in guidebooks and on maps from 1895 or earlier. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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The original "Glacier" station opened soon after the driving of the last spike at Craigellachie in November 1885. "Glacier House" was possibly the first CPR resort, and certainly one of the most attractive. So-called because, visible over the trees a mile and a half away, the 'great glacier of the Selkirks' tumbled 3000 ft. in a broken cascade of ice from the Illecillewaet Icefield. Description & anecdotes in Canadian Alpine Journal vol XVIII, 1928, p.43; photograph in Canadian Alpine Journal vol XXVI, 1938, facing p.85. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |