Tappen Columbia-Shuswap 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. NW side of Salmon Arm Shuswap Lake, just N of Salmon Arm (municipality), Kamloops Division Yale Land District

Mapped Location

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

 

Information

General information on Tappen

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Tappen

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

Name Description
Tappen Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Tappen

References to Tappen that document the origin of its place name

Tappen (Post Office) adopted 3 November 1932 on 82L/NW, as labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915. Form of name changed to Tappen (community) 15 March 1983 on 82L/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

Sawmill located here c1883; Tappen Station labelled on BC Lands map of Eastern BC, 1891; Tappen Siding Post Office opened here 1 July 1892, F.McCulla, postmaster; closed 1 February 1897. Brightwater Post Office was opened in this location 1 August 1908, H.C.Banks, postmaster; name changed to Tappen Post Office 1 August 1911.

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

After Herbert Tappen, CPR constuction contractor in the 1880's, from Massachusetts; was a cousin of Andrew Onderdonk, chief CPR contractor in British Columbia, and a partner or sub-contractor of Temple Frederick Sinclair.

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 misspelling of Tappan, the name of one of the sub-contractors who laid the CPR track along here in 1884.

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

 

Columbia-Shuswap Regional District

Political Boundaries

Last updated: 2023-09-27