Village of Cache Creek Thompson-Nicola Regional District, British Columbia

Village (1) - A populated place with legally defined boundaries, incorporated as a village municipality under the provincial Municipal Act. NW of junction of Bonaparte and Thompson Rivers, just N of Ashcroft, Kamloops Division Yale Land District

Mapped Location

Village of Cache Creek: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.

 

Information

General information on Village of Cache Creek

  • Feature Type: Incorporated

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Village of Cache Creek

A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named

Name Description
Village of Cache Creek Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Village of Cache Creek

References to Village of Cache Creek that document the origin of its place name

Cache Creek (Post Office) adopted 6 October 1936 on 92 I. Had been identified as a locality on Dominion Sectional sheet 111, Kamloops, 1916. Incorporated as a Local District (municipality) 25 February 1959; reincorporated as a Village Municipality 28 November 1967. Coordinates adjusted 31 May 1982, from 50 49 - 121 20 on 92I/14. Village boundary extended June 1999. Link to the municipality's own internet site through www.civicnet.gov.bc.ca/members/ (April 2000) See also Cache Creek (creek) for discussion about the provenance of the name.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
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Post Office opened 4 January 1868; closed 1 April 1878; reopened 1 January 1879; Post Office references indicate that there was another temporary closing before being reopened 1 August 1883, and another temporary closing sometime in 1903.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office  |  Province of British Columbia

Charles Augustus Semlin (later Premier of British Columbia, 1898-1900) is identified as first Postmaster, and in 1873 successfully petitioned the government to build the first public boarding school at Cache Creek. Cache Creek Boarding School was opened 2 June 1874 at the junction of Cache Creek and Bonaparte River, with a total of 18 boys and girls enrolled. The school was closed 30 September 1890, ending the province's experiment in public boarding schools.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions  |  Province of British Columbia

 

Thompson-Nicola Regional District

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Last updated: 2023-10-02