Othello Fraser Valley Regional District, British Columbia

Locality - A named place or area, generally with a scattered population of 50 or less. N side Coquihalla River just E of Hope, Yale Division Yale Land District

Mapped Location

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

 

Information

General information on Othello

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Othello

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

Name Description
Othello Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Othello

References to Othello that document the origin of its place name

Othello (Station) adopted 6 October 1936 on Geological Survey sheet 422A, Hope, as labelled on Department of Interior's map of Southern British Columbia Railway Belt, ed.5, 1924. Name rescinded June 1976. Othello (locality) reinstated 4 January 1985 on 92H/6.

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

Coquihalla subdivision of CPR was closed in November 1959, and track is now being removed (October 1961 letter from CPR, file 01296T)

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

"Othello, Lear, Jessica, Verona (now Aurum), Portia, Iago, Romeo and Juliet - stations on CPR's Kettle Valley Line between Hope and Brookmere - were named after Shakespeare's characters or locations by KVR president James John Warren (1870-1939), a Toronto corporations lawyer and director. This section of the KVR was completed in 1916. He probably named the stations Jura and Belfort also."

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions  |  Province of British Columbia

"...a daughter of James J. Warren, president of the Kettle Valley Railroad, persuaded her father to name the stations east of Hope after Shakespearean characters...."

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; 1001 British Columbia Place Names; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973.  |  Province of British Columbia

 

Fraser Valley Regional District

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Last updated: 2023-09-30