Taghum, British Columbia

Taghum, British Columbia

Taghum, originally Williams Siding, is an unincorporated community and railway point on the north side of the wezt arm of Kootenay Lake in the West Kootenay region of the southeastern Interior of British Columbia, Canada.

"Taghum" means "six" in the Chinook Jargon and is a reference to the rough distance in mile from the wharf at the city of Nelson, British Columbia.

Taghum was founded by prospector M. Monaghan from Minnesota in 1888, who pre-empted 160 acres of land. The Canadian Pacific Railway built a siding at this location. A lumbermill origiginally located at Lebahdo in the nearby Slocan Valley, owned by John Bell and A.G. Lambert, was moved here by 1909.

ee also

*List of Chinook Jargon placenames

References

* [http://www.elp.gov.bc.ca/bcgn-bin/bcg10?name=16758 BCGNIS listing "Taghum (community)"]


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