Taghum
| Taghum | |
|---|---|
  Taghum Location of Taghum in British Columbia | |
| Coordinates: 49°29′00″N 117°23′00″W / 49.48333°N 117.38333°WCoordinates: 49°29′00″N 117°23′00″W / 49.48333°N 117.38333°W | |
| Country |
 Canada |
| Province |
 British Columbia |
| Area code(s) | 250, 778 |
Taghum, originally Williams Siding, is an unincorporated community and railway point on the north side of the west 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 (0.65 km2) of land. The Canadian Pacific Railway built a siding at this location. A lumbermill originally located at Lebahdo in the nearby Slocan Valley, owned by John Bell and A.G. Lambert, was moved here by 1909.
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History of Taghum:
A country farm located 1.2 km east of present day Taghum Shell provided excessive amount of fruit trees which used to be loaded onto the railway to be carried to now defunct Kootenay Co-Op Factory where they mass-produce jams for the province of British Columbia and Western Canada too.