Historical BC Names

Historical BC Names is a names set for British Columbia as it was around 1900. It changes only the names of towns and streets. Town names: 712 British Columbia places that had residents by 1910, each one documented under that name in a source dated before 1911. That covers towns, villages, mining camps, forts and trading posts, cannery and mill settlements, railway towns, and long-established Indigenous villages that appear under those names in records of the time. That includes ghost towns, Gold Rush camps and fur-trade forts, and earlier names where a place had more than one, such as Granville (Vancouver), Colvile Town (Nanaimo), Cook's Ferry (Spences Bridge) and Joseph's Prairie (Cranbrook). Places founded or renamed after 1910 are left out (for example Powell River, Prince George, Invermere, Smithers and Tumbler Ridge). Period names are used where they differ from today's, such as Fort George, Alberni, Gibson's Landing, Port Simpson, Kincolith and Slocan City. Regions covered: Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands; the Lower Mainland, Fraser Valley and Sunshine Coast; the Fraser Canyon, Thompson, Nicola and Shuswap; the Cariboo, Chilcotin and Central Interior; the Okanagan and Similkameen; the Boundary Country; the West Kootenay; the East Kootenay; and the North Coast, Skeena, Haida Gwaii and the far north. Street names: 566 names, from period main streets (Front, Columbia, Government, Hastings, Granville, Railway, Dominion and more) to colonial-era figures, explorers, mines, railways, rivers and districts. Every namesake dates from before 1910. Note: I made this mod with AI assistance. The town list was checked against historical sources, mainly Henderson's British Columbia Gazetteer and Directory (1899-1900, 1900-01 and 1910, digitized by Vancouver Public Library at bccd.vpl.ca), A Gazetteer of British Columbia (Provincial Publishing Co., 1909), BC Geographical Names, and Wikipedia. Extra street names come from pre-1911 sources supplied by Kortox0: the New Westminster street index, 1892 Victoria directories and early Vancouver street lists. Dates for small or short-lived places can be approximate. Corrections are welcome. How to use: start a new game and choose Historical British Columbia under New Game > Names. Person names (passengers, drivers) use the game's built-in United Kingdom set. Compatibility: cosmetic only, so achievements stay available. Works with any climate. The name set is picked when you start a new game, so adding the mod to an existing save does not rename anything there. Removing it from a save that uses it is marked as a Warning as a precaution. Created by Kortox0.