| Feature Type: | Locality - A named place or area, generally with a scattered population of 50 or less. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W side of Okanagan Lake surrounding mouth of Shorts Creek, SW of Vernon, Osoyoos Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°08'04"N, 119°30'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/4 |
| Related Maps: |
82L/3 82L/4 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Fintry (landing) adopted 7 February 1951 on 82L/SW, as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Form of name changed to Fintry (steamer landing) 19 January 1961 on 82L/3. Form of name changed to Fintry (locality) 29 November 1984 (Ottawa file 203-2). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Steamboat captain Thomas Shorts settled here in 1883 and sold to Captain James Cameron Dunwaters in 1909. Dunwaters built a stately home here in 1911, using granite quarried from nearby cliffs, and naming his estate Fintry after his ancestral home in Scotland; his agricultural operation was famous throughout the Okanagan and included a gravity-fed irrigation system, hydroelectric plant, octagonal dairy barn and lake-side fruit packing house. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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The land here was bought in 1909 by Captain James Cameron Dun-Waters, who named his estate Fintry after his family home in Stirlingshire. Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; British Columbia Place Names; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997 |