Poplar Creek is a ghost town in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia.

Both sides of the creek were lined with Balm of Gilead trees, which early prospectors mistook for poplar.

In July 1903, Hamilton, Morgan and O'Connor staked this gold claim,[4] which lay on the south side of the creek in close proximity to the railway track.

[23] In 1930, new management was appointed at the company to extract the silver ore.[24] In 1939, a large placer mining enterprise began on the creek.

[28] The profitable ferry, which operated across the Lardeau in the vicinity of the creek during 1903,[29] was replaced in April 1904, when a government bridge was completed.

[3] When the Nugget newspaper began publication that December, six hotels, four stores, a livery stable, and laundry existed.

The northwestward advance of the Arrowhead and Kootenay Railway rail head passed through Poplar Creek in May 1902.

[42][43] Tracklaying on this Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) subsidiary was completed to the foot of Trout Lake in early June.

[44] Although work trains immediately carried passengers and freight,[45] CP did not assume control until the beginning of August.

[46] Most likely opened in 1903, the train station and siding were initially called MacInnes, named after either Angus McInnes, a local mining recorder, or Thomas Robert McInnes, sixth Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, who signed the act to grant the charter.