The Village of Slocan is in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The former steamboat landing and ferry terminal is at the mouth of Springer Creek, at the foot of Slocan Lake. The locality, on BC Highway 6 is about by road north of Castlegar and by road and ferry south of Revelstoke. Name origin Slocan ( ) is from Ktunaxa sⱡuqan, ), or the related ( (Sinixt slogan). The meaning is "to pierce, strike on the head," in the context of spearing salmon. It likely derived from the Okanagan-Colville term. The name has been used officially for several geographical features, such as communities, rivers, lakes, a whirlpool, and mountain. Slocan became the accepted anglicized version of the wide variety of other spellings, the earliest of which was Shlogan River in 1859. The present spelling was first used in 1884. In 1891, Crown land purchases included by James Delaney and Thomas M. Ward at the lakeshore, by Harry H. Ward (Tom's brother) south, and by Arthur C. Dick south of the lake. All four were likely involved in establishing the townsite. Appearing about the same time as New Denver, a community mid-way up the lake's eastern shore that was also briefly called Slocan City or Slocan in 1892, it is unclear how one prevailed in keeping the name. Mining After the initial activity at Sandon, prospectors extended their range of exploration to the south and west. Locating the Dayton claim in 1893, Billy Springer staked the property. Being the first on a creek lacking a name, he designated it as Springer Creek. A mining rush came in 1895. By 1906, many of the mines had closed. However, small-scale mining remained viable for many years because of the richness of the ores. Around Slocan City, more than half of the 125 occurrences were mineral producers, and 13 mines produced more than 1 million grams of silver. The Arlington mine, near the confluence of Speculator and Springer creeks, east-northeast was worked extensively 1899–1903, then intermittently until 1979. Production totalled 20,592 tonnes, yielding 31,429,872 grams of silver, 861,487 kilograms of lead, 118,863 kilograms of zinc, 743 grams of gold, 834 kilograms of copper, and 46 kilograms of cadmium. The Dayton mine, near the mouth of Dayton Creek, east-northeast had intermittent production 1903–1935 that totalled 17 tonnes, yielding 12,224 grams of silver, 93 grams of gold, and 1,006 kilograms of lead. The