Edgewood is a settlement on the west shore of Lower Arrow Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The former steamboat landing is between the mouths of Inonoaklin Creek and Eagle Creek. The locality, off BC Highway 6, is by road about southeast of Vernon and by road and ferry southwest of Nakusp. Killarney becomes Edgewood The first known references to Killarney as the initial steamboat stop were in 1893. Under construction that year, this government wharf served settlers heading into the Fire Valley. In 1890, a townsite was surveyed at the landing, but damage to the partially built wharf from the 1894 flooding of Eagle Creek ended plans to build a hotel and store. In 1899, Thomas McCardell preempted across the creek to the north, the family being the first settlers in the immediate vicinity. When a precise name was needed for the latter on opening the post office, the Edgewood Dairy Co. in Fire Valley inspired the name. In 1902, McCardell was the inaugural postmaster, but the family left in 1905, abandoning their property. When a floating dock was hauled up river and installed at Edgewood in 1907, the nearby Killarney landing was abandoned. Over the next two years, the federal government built a new Edgewood wharf. A 1921 BC government reference to Edgewood as a relatively new town, replacing Killarney, suggests the names were used interchangeably for a period. Early community A townsite was established in 1908, with a further subdivision in 1911 encompassing land about westward and southward. The main settlement was about north of the mouth of Inonoaklin Creek. In 1909, Leonard Heaton was the inaugural teacher. In 1919, a new schoolhouse was built. Ferret Road was the boundary line between the Fire Valley and Edgewood school districts. The 1946 implementation of the 1945 Cameron Report into BC school financing and administration created centralized larger districts. The establishment of School District 10 Arrow Lakes included the dissolving of such local school boards. As a consequence, Edgewood school captured the lower grades in the general area, while grades 6–7 attended Inonoaklin Valley, and the higher ones went to Needles. In 1949, The Valley school closed, and the other two schools expanded. The government wagon road to Needles, and the two-storey, 12-room Edgewood Hotel, opened in 1909. That year, William J. Banting operated a store in a tent on the beach, erected a permanent