Avola Thompson-Nicola Regional District, 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 side of North Thompson River, NE of Clearwater, Kamloops Division Yale Land District

Mapped Location

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

 

Information

General information on Avola

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Avola

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

Name Description
Avola Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Avola

References to Avola that document the origin of its place name

Avola (Post Office & Station) adopted in the 1930 BC Gazetteer, as labelled on BC maps 1EM, 1915, and 3M, 1917; confirmed 27 July 1966 on 82 NW. Form of name changed to Avola (Community) 15 December 1982 on 82M/14.

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

Avola Post Office opened 1 September 1913.

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

A post office was opened here in 1913 during construction of the CNR. Since there was already a Stillwater Post Office elsewhere in British Columbia, the existing name of Stillwater Flats was discarded and that of Avola in Sicily borrowed.

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

Named in 1913 for a Sicilian town by the CNR. For 50 years previously it had been Stillwater Flats, for the pleasant interlude in North Thompson turbulence.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
Place Names of the Kamloops District; Kamloops Museum, 1978  |  Province of British Columbia

 

Thompson-Nicola Regional District

Political Boundaries

Last updated: 2023-10-02