Kootenay Pass
Kootenay Pass is a mountain pass halfway between Salmo and Creston. The pass was named
after the local Ktunaxa band, then known as the Kootenay band.1 Akrigg notes that the meaning of Kootenay is not known and that the often quoted
“water people” is a false etymology.2
The Kootenay Pass was also known as the Coutainnais Pass.
3 In
this despatch,
Douglas describes the pass as a
nature pack-road...of great beauty, and replete with objects of interest to the tourist
and the sportsman.
- 1. Who Are The Ktunaxa, Ktunaxa Nation; G. P. V. Akrigg and H. B. Akrigg, British Columbia Place Names (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1997), 143.
- 2. Akrigg, British Columbia Place Names, 143.
- 3. Ibid.
Mentions of this place in the documents
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Henson, James to Rogers, Baron Blachford Frederic 21 May 1862, CO 60:14, no. 5148,
90.
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Douglas, Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 15
April 1862, CO 60:13, no. 5571, 149.
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Murdoch and Rogers to Merivale, Herman 7 February 1860, CO 60:9, no. 1299, 58.
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Seymour, Governor Frederick to Cardwell, Edward 17 February 1866, CO 60:26, no. 1914,
331.
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Douglas, Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 18
October 1859, CO 60:5, no. 12499, 174.
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Seymour, Governor Frederick to Cardwell, Edward 7 October 1864, CO 60:19, no. 10958,
317.