Kaleden 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 side of Skaha Lake, S of Penticton, Similkameen Division Yale Land District

Mapped Location

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

 

Information

General information on Kaleden

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Kaleden

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

Name Description
Kaleden Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Kaleden

References to Kaleden that document the origin of its place name

Kaleden (Town) adopted 6 October 1936 on Ottawa file OBF 1525. Identified as Kaleden (Post Office) in the 1966 BC Gazetteer. Form of name changed to Kaleden (community) 14 January 1983 on 82 E/5.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
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Kaleden Post Office was opened 1 April 1910, A.S. Hatfield postmaster.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
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"James Ritchie of Summerland laid out a townsite here in 1909 and offered a prize of a town lot for the best name proposed for [the new townsite]. Rev. Walter Russell, a Baptist evangelist visiting the Okanagan, won by proposing this name - made of Kal, from the Greek, "beautiful", and Eden, name of the Biblical orchard." (12th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society, 1948, citing Mrs. R.B. White).

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
included with note  |  Province of British Columbia

 

Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen

Political Boundaries

Last updated: 2023-10-01