Fairview Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, British Columbia

Community - An unincorporated populated place, generally with a population of 50 or more, and having a recognized central area that might contain a post office, store and/or community hall, etc, intended for the use of the general public in the region. W of Oliver, Similkameen Division Yale Land District

Mapped Location

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

 

Information

General information on Fairview

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Fairview

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

Name Description
Fairview Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Fairview

References to Fairview that document the origin of its place name

Fairview (town) adopted 6 October 1936 on Geological Survey sheet 420A, Kettle River, as labelled on BC Lands' map 1EM, 1915. Form of name changed to Fairview (settlement) 7 October 1954 on 82E/SW. Subsequently changed to Fairview (community)

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
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Fairview Post Office was opened 1 December 1892, Thomas Elliot, postmaster. Fairview Townsite plan was registered 9 June 1897. Post Office was closed 31 March 1926.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
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"Fairview Townsite plan registered by Williams Alfred Dier and Augustus Alexander Davidson; named for the fine view of the Okanagan Valley to the south and southeast." (12th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society, 1948)

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Jeff Miller stakes a mineral claim on a jasper outcrop near the townsite of Fairview. He buys up 2,000 acres and builds a small cabin. On his 87th birthday his relatives visit him from back east and are shown a coffee can full of gold nuggets. He says he'll draw a map, to be given out upon his death, giving directions to the mine, but dies of a heart-attack before being able to carry out his promise. Neither mine nor gold-filled coffee can are located. (condensed from "Lost Treasure in British Columbia" by L. Lazeo; Victoria 1973; presented at BC Folklore Society's website http://collections.ic.gc.ca/folklore/ )

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Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen

Political Boundaries

Last updated: 2023-10-01