Moyie Regional District of East Kootenay, British Columbia

Community - An unincorporated populated place, generally with a population of 50 or more, and having a recognized central area that might contain a post office, store and/or community hall, etc, intended for the use of the general public in the region. E side of Moyie Lake, S of Cranbrook, Kootenay Land District

Mapped Location

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

 

Information

General information on Moyie

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Moyie

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

Name Description
Moyie Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Moyie

References to Moyie that document the origin of its place name

"Moyie (town); not Mooyie" adopted in the 2nd Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 30 June 1900. Changed to Moyie (post office & railway station) in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Form of name changed to Moyie (community) 28 February 1983 on 82 G/5.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
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Moyie Post Office was opened 1 January 1899, named in association with the river, in turn a corruption of the French, mouiller, "to (make) wet", the name given by trappers owing to the moist conditions described by David Thompson, 1808.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
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CPR's paddlewheeler Moyie was commissioned to run on the Stikine River, but the collapse of the Yukon Gold Rush led to the shipment of its machinery and hull frame to Nelson, for assembly in the fall of 1898. Her first passenger run was 7 December 1898, operating between Nelson and Kootenay Landing. The Moyie ran on Kootenay Lake until 1957 - the last passenger-carrying, steam-driven sternwheeler operating in Canada and the western United States. She was beached at Kaslo in 1958 and became a museum; eventually declared a National Historic Site as the oldest existing intact vessel of its type in the world. Restoration work was begun c1988 with the view to full restoration in time for the centennial of her first run. See Royal BC Museum's magazine, Discovery, vol.25, no.4, November 1997, for details about the restoration project.

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

Political Boundaries

Last updated: 2023-10-21