| Feature Type: | Village (1) - A populated place with legally defined boundaries, incorporated as a village municipality under the provincial Municipal Act. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | E of Vernon, Osoyoos Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°15'02"N, 118°57'43"W at the approximate location of the Municipal Hall. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/7 |
| Related Maps: |
82L/2 82L/7 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Lumby (Post Office & Station) labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915. Incorporated as a Village Municipality 20 December 1955. Lumby (Village) confirmed 1 March 1956 on 82L/SE. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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White Valley Post Office was opened 1 August 1889, Peter Bisset/Bessette postmaster. Re-named Lumby Post Office 1 February 1894. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after Moses Lumby, pioneer settler of the district and one time Government Agent at Vernon, who did much statistical work to show reasons for opening the Okanagan Valley to rail transportation. He originally settled south of Enderby. (Rupert W. Haggen, BCLS, Origin of Place Names in Boundary District, 1945 manuscript, file H.1.45.) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Moses Lumby, farmer, settled here in 1870. Born in England 1842; came to BC in 1862; mined in Cariboo; farmed near Monte Creek, east of Kamloops 1865-70 and carried mail to Big Bend Mines. Later a JP. Vice-President, Shuswap & Okanagan Railway, 1886. Government agent, Vernon, 1891-93. Died 23 October 1893. (12th Report, Okanagan Historical Society, 1948) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |