Queens Bay is an unincorporated community in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia.

[2][3] The benchlands were logged in the early 1890s to provide fuel for the Pilot Bay smelter across the lake.

From 1907, real estate agents promoted the commercial orchard potential, luring many settlers from the UK.

In 1908, Harry Scott-Lauder and his younger brother R. Arthur settled[4] but quickly realized the challenge of harnessing the sparse water supplies of local creeks.

When the dam burst, the torrent dislodged a large concrete water tank, which careered into the lower level of their house where the couple were sleeping.

[9] About 1909, the Eighth Baron of Belrath, Ireland, Lord Aylmer, and his wife, migrated from Ottawa with their five adult children.

[11] The Queens Bay Fruit Growers Association, which formed about 1912,[12] erected a log packing shed in 1922.

In 2015, Queens Bay was one of the first BC communities and the first in the Kootenays to be awarded with the FireSmart designation for local wildfire protection efforts.

Issued in March 2016, a key recommendation of the report was to relocate the terminal to Queens Bay North.