Regional District of Central Kootenay Regional District
Incorporated November 30 1965 as Regional District of Central Kootenay.
Mapped Location
Regional District of Central Kootenay: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.
Information
General information on Regional District of Central Kootenay
- Feature Type: Regional District
- Regional District Administrative Centre: City of Nelson
- Established: Tuesday, November 30, 1965
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Regional District of Central Kootenay
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
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| Regional District of Central Kootenay | Official |
A Selected Bibliography of Regional District of Central Kootenay, Regional District
A compilation of essential readings detailing the history, geography, and culture of the region.
Silver rush British Columbia's silvery Slocan, 1891-1900 by Peter J. Smith
Silver Rush tells the story of British Columbia’s “Silvery Slocan.” In the 1890s, mining camps like Sandon, Three Forks, Whitewater and their neighbours; New Denver, Silverton, Slocan City, Kaslo and Nakusp, thrived. Once the most productive mining region in British Columbia, prospectors and miners came from Idaho, Montana and other mining centres to reap the silver harvest. Capitalists flooded in from Spokane, Seattle, Vancouver, and investment centres across North America and the world. Plummeting silver prices, labour troubles and the Klondike gold rush eventually put an end to the silver rush but the legacy of that rush endures to this day.
vi, 642 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 28 cm
Desiderata
Sandon, the mining centre of the silvery Slocan by Dave May
Sandon, the Mining Centre of the Silvery Slocan by Dave May is a 1986 regional history (self-published in Nelson, B.C.) that chronicles the dramatic rise, catastrophic decline, and resilient legacy of one of British Columbia's most famous mining boomtowns. The book traces Sandon's explosive 1890s transformation into a wealthy, fully electrified civic hub—often dubbed the "Monte Carlo of North America"—following massive silver-lead ore strikes in the West Kootenay region's Selkirk Mountains. May meticulously details the opulent business district and fierce local sports rivalries, alongside the grueling, hazardous working conditions faced by the miners, and the subsequent fires, labor strikes, and floods that ultimately reduced the bustling city to a renowned ghost town. Ultimately, it serves as an invaluable, grassroots record of the sheer grit, ambition, and tragic boom-and-bust cycles that defined Canada's legendary "Silvery Slocan" district.
viii, 216 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Desiderata
Whistle stops along the Columbia River narrows a history of Burton and surrounding area by Burton New Horizons Book Committee
The Burton New Horizons Book Committee’s Whistle stops along the Columbia River narrows: a history of Burton and surrounding area chronicles the vibrant steamboat era and agrarian settlement along the vital Arrow Lakes corridor in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. Set against the deep, glacially carved valleys connecting the Upper and Lower Arrow Lakes, the narrative details how early homesteaders, miners, and loggers mapped their riverside camps directly onto the ancient fishing and trading routes of the Sinixt and Ktunaxa peoples. The text reveals how these remote residents relied on tight-knit kinship alliances and the regular arrival of Columbia River sternwheelers to survive the profound geographic isolation of the narrows, forging a highly interdependent, water-bound society. Crucially, the local history documents the ultimate civic sacrifice required by mid-twentieth-century hydroelectric engineering, detailing how the original Burton townsite was intentionally flooded and relocated following the 1968 construction of the Hugh Keenleyside Dam. Ultimately, this community-authored volume functions as both a vital pioneer record and a testament to the cooperative endurance of a rural society forced to completely adapt its geographic footprint in the face of massive environmental reengineering.
vii, 411 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 29 cm
Desiderata
Mapping the frontier Charles Wilson's diary of the survey of the 49th parallel, 1858-1862, while secretary of the British Boundary Commission by Charles William Wilson
Mapping the frontier Charles Wilson's diary of the survey of the 49th parallel, 1858-1862 examines the grueling imperial cartography and immense logistical struggle situated across the profoundly rugged, trans-mountain macro-geography of the US-British Columbia borderlands. Wilson details how the region's formidable topography—specifically the impenetrable, old-growth temperate rainforests of the coastal slope, the sheer, glaciated alpine barricades of the Cascade and Rocky Mountains, and the deep, turbulent river chasms cutting perpendicular to the border—strictly dictated the margins of early scientific reconnaissance, precarious overland supply chains, and the immense physical labor required to physically mark the wilderness. By mapping the Boundary Commission's arduous effort to impose a rigid, abstract political line across violently fractured terrain—requiring the literal chopping of massive forest swaths, precarious high-altitude ascents, and constant battles with severe winter isolation—the narrative highlights how this specific unforgiving, mountainous geography anchored a profoundly grueling, highly isolated feat of imperial engineering. Ultimately, this diaristic and cartographic record serves as a macro-level spatial history, demonstrating how the immense alpine barricades, severe botanical density, and unrelenting climatic extremes of this Pacific Northwest landscape fundamentally shaped the highly arduous, geographically defiant character of the 49th parallel boundary survey.
182 pages : maps, portrait ; 22 cm
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Regional District of Central Kootenay
- Ainsworth Hot Springs
- Alamo
- Alice Siding
- Appledale
- Applegrove
- Argenta
- Arrow Creek
- Arrow Park
- Balfour
- Beasley
- Belleview
- Birchdale
- Blewett
- Blueberry Creek
- Bonnington Falls
- Boswell
- Brandon
- Brilliant
- Brouse
- Burton
- Canyon
- Carrolls Landing
- City of Castlegar
- Cody
- Cooper Creek
- Corra Linn
- Crawford Bay
- Crescent Bay
- Crescent Valley
- Town of Creston
- Curzon
- Deer Park
- East Arrow Park
- Edgewood
- Erickson
- Erie
- Fauquier
- Fosthall
- Fraser
- Fry Creek
- Gerrard
- Gibson Creek
- Glade
- Glenbank
- Glenlily
- Granite
- Gray Creek
- Hall
- Harrop
- Hills
- Howser
- Huscroft
- Jersey
- Johnsons Landing
- Village of Kaslo
- Kinnaird
- Kitchener
- Kootenay Bay
- Krestova
- Kuskonook
- Lardeau
- Lebahdo
- Lemon Creek
- Lister
- Longbeach
- Makinson
- Marblehead
- Meadow Creek
- Meadows
- Mirror Lake
- Mountain Station
- Village of Nakusp
- Needles
- City of Nelson
- Nelway
- Village of New Denver
- New Settlement
- Ootischenia
- Pass Creek
- Passmore
- Perrys
- Playmor Junction
- Poplar Creek
- Porto Rico
- Procter
- Queens Bay
- Raspberry
- Remac
- Renata
- Retallack
- Riondel
- Robson
- Robson West
- Rosebery
- Ross Spur
- Rykerts
- Village of Salmo
- Sanca
- Sandon
- Shoreacres
- Shoreholme
- Shutty Bench
- Village of Silverton
- Sirdar
- Village of Slocan
- Slocan Park
- South Slocan
- Summit Lake
- Sunshine Bay
- Taghum
- Tarrys
- Three Forks
- Thrums
- Vallican
- Walkers
- Willow Point
- Winlaw
- Wynndel
- Yahk
- Ymir
- Zincton
Political Boundaries
Last updated: 2025-09-23