Allenby Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, British Columbia

Locality - A named place or area, generally with a scattered population of 50 or less. S of junction of Similkameen and Tulameen Rivers, just SW of Princeton, Similkameen Division Yale Land District

Mapped Location

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

 

Information

General information on Allenby

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Allenby

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

Name Description
Allenby Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Allenby

References to Allenby that document the origin of its place name

Allenby (Post Office) adopted 6 October 1936 on Canadian Geological Survey map 421A. Form of name changed to Allenby (Post Office & Station) 5 November 1953. Form of name changed to Allenby (Settlement) 18 December 1968 on 92H/SE; further changed to Allenby (Locality) 31 October 1980 on 92 H/7.

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Copper Mountain Post Office (located on Copper Mountain) relocated and renamed Allenby Post Office 1 December 1918, in association with the new Allenby townsite (6 months later a post office was re-opened at Copper Mountain). Allenby Post Office closed 30 September 1961. At the time of closing, the post office was located on Lot 2267S. KVR Station had closed in 1958.

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The place began with the concentration plant, opened in conjunction with Canada Copper Corporation's great Copper Mountain Mine located 7 miles south of here. Allenby townsite so-named after Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby (1861-1936), British field marshall in Egypt and Palestine in WWI; first Viscount Allenby, 1919, later Lord Allenby.

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"Some of the dwelling-houses at Allenby were painted, which gives a more prosperous appearance to the surroundings. The company store and mess-house has been rented and is being managed by Al Armstrong. There are a present 54 dwelling-houses and 138 employees at Allenby.... a total of 669,000 tones of ore was milled during 1926 and the concentrates shipped to the Trail smelter." (BC Mines Report, 1926, p.222; photographs of Allenby boarding house and compressor-house opp.p.208)

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Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen

Political Boundaries

Last updated: 2023-10-01