Fintry Regional District of Central Okanagan, British Columbia

Locality - A named place or area, generally with a scattered population of 50 or less. W side of Okanagan Lake surrounding mouth of Shorts Creek, SW of Vernon, Osoyoos Division Yale Land District

Mapped Location

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

 

Information

General information on Fintry

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Fintry

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

Name Description
Fintry Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Fintry

References to Fintry that document the origin of its place name

Fintry (landing) adopted 7 February 1951 on 82L/SW, as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Form of name changed to Fintry (steamer landing) 19 January 1961 on 82L/3. Form of name changed to Fintry (locality) 29 November 1984 (Ottawa file 203-2).

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

Steamboat captain Thomas Shorts settled here in 1883 and sold to Captain James Cameron Dunwaters in 1909. Dunwaters built a stately home here in 1911, using granite quarried from nearby cliffs, and naming his estate Fintry after his ancestral home in Scotland; his agricultural operation was famous throughout the Okanagan and included a gravity-fed irrigation system, hydroelectric plant, octagonal dairy barn and lake-side fruit packing house.

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

The land here was bought in 1909 by Captain James Cameron Dun-Waters, who named his estate Fintry after his family home in Stirlingshire.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; British Columbia Place Names; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997  |  Province of British Columbia

 

Regional District of Central Okanagan

Political Boundaries

Last updated: 2023-09-27