Alamo Regional District of Central Kootenay, British Columbia

Abandoned Locality - A previously populated place with no current population. On Carpenter Creek, E of Slocan Lake, Kootenay Land District

Mapped Location

Alamo: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.

 

Information

General information on Alamo

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Alamo

A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named

Name Description
Alamo Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Alamo

References to Alamo that document the origin of its place name

"Alamo (Abandoned Locality)" adopted 2 March 1961 at 50º 01' - 117º 16' on 82K/SW. Incorrectly entered in database as Alamo (Locality); confirmed as Alamo (Abandoned Locality) and position adjusted 9 November 1993 on 82 K/3.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
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Alamo Post Office opened 2 April 1899; closed 30 September 1904. Alamo (Station) identified in the 1909 BC Gazetteer: a siding located at the Alamo concentrator on the Nakusp and Slocan branch of the CPR. Labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915. Alamo Post Office reopened 1 August 1919; closed for the last time 4 August 1939. Station closed 28 March 1957 according to CPR; by 1959 the track had been torn up and mine buildings were in ruins.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
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Mineral claim first mentioned in 1893 BC Mines Report, pp.1047 & 1057, and Crown-Granted 4 January 1895; detailed description of mine in 1896 BC Mines Report, p.54. Mineral Claim, Lot 737, labelled on "Triangulation survey of Slocan District", 1897, and on "Map of Slocan Mining Camp" by W.D. Drewry, April 1897. Concentrator, situated on L736, with connecting tramway and wagon road up Howson Creek, is identified on the latter map.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
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The original owner of the concentrator, Nathaniel Moore, who came from Duluth Minnesota, had called the site "New Duluth"; the concentrator had been established to process ore from the Idaho and Alamo mines, and began operations 4 February 1895, employing 125 men. Later that spring, Moore and his partner John Vallance established the Slocan Tramway Company and employed additional men to build a tramway connecting the Alamo, Idaho and Cumberland mines to the concentrator; completed July 1895. "Exactly when the siding came to be known as Alamo is not certain. Early newspapers always referred to it as New Duluth. However, when the post office was established there on April 1, 1899, the name Alamo was used." (West Kootenay: The Pioneer Years, by Garnet Basque, Heritage House Publishing, 1990.) (excerpt received January 1998, on file N.1.56)

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
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Regional District of Central Kootenay

Political Boundaries

Last updated: 2023-09-27