Agate Thompson-Nicola Regional District, British Columbia

Locality - A named place or area, generally with a scattered population of 50 or less. E side Nicola River, NW of Merritt, Kamloops Division Yale Land District

Mapped Location

Agate: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.

 

Information

General information on Agate

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Agate

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

Name Description
Agate Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Agate

References to Agate that document the origin of its place name

Adopted 6 October 1936 as a Railway Point on Canadian Geological map 408A (file A.1.36); resubmitted and application altered 16 January 1958 on 92I/6; form of name changed to Agate (Locality) 4 May 1979.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
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Agate, a flag stop on the railway between Spendes Bridge and Merritt, was so named from the fact that agates are found in the creek which flows from the west into the Nicola River at that point. (The Nicola Valley in Review, Vol 1, 1958, p.16.)

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
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Possibly named after E.T. Agate, a CPR District Engineer (Nicola Valley Archives Association, Vol 1, No.2, April 1978)

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
 |  Province of British Columbia

 

Thompson-Nicola Regional District

Political Boundaries

Last updated: 2023-10-02