| 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 within Sparwood municipality, between Fernie and Crowsnest Pass, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°42'59"N, 114°51'03"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82G/10 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Natal (Post Office & station) adopted 12 December 1939 on 82/SE, as labelled on BC map 4C, 1913, and BC map 1EM, 1915. Form of name changed to Natal (Village) 27 July 1964 on 82G/NE-NW. Form of name changed to Natal (Station) in the 1977 supplement to the Gazetteer; subsequently adjusted to Natal (railway point). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Adopted December 12, 1939 on 82/SE; also February 6, 1934 on 82G, Crowsnest. Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |
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New Michel Post Office was opened 16 April 1909; name changed to Natal Post Office 1 January 1914, located on L.1, Block 16, L4589, Gp 1. Natal Village Municipality incorporated 22 December 1960; incorporation dissolved and amalgamated within Sparwood District Municipality 12 May 1966. Post Office name changed to Sparwood Post Office 25 May 1971, now relocated to Lot 49, Plan 7008. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Apparently named at the time of the Boer War (1899-1902), in honour of the British Crown Colony of Natal. Natal and the Cape Colony were engaged in hostilities with the Boer republics of Transvaal and Orange Free State. Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; 1001 British Columbia Place Names; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973. |