Hall Creek (British Columbia)

Hall Creek is a creek in the Selkirk Mountains in the West Kootenay region of the Regional District of Central Kootenay in British Columbia, Canada. The creek is a tributary of the Salmo River and flows east into the river in the community of Hall, a few kilometres north of the town of Ymir and a few kilometres south of Nelson. The creek and the community of Hall were named for the Osner and Winslow Hall; brothers from Colville, Washington.[1] The brothers were pioneers in the silver rush occurring in the kootenays in the late 1880s and early 1890s [2] In 1886, the brothers led the expedition to Toad Mountain which led to the creation of the Silver King mine, which in turn gave rise to the city of Nelson.[3]