| Feature Type: | 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. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | On C.P.R. and C.N.R., N end of Wood Lake, S of Vernon, Osoyoos Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°06'59"N, 119°22'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/3 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Oyama Post Office adopted 7 February 1951, as labelled on BC Map 1EM, Kootenay, Osoyoos & Similkameen Mining Divisions, 1915. Status changed to Community 31 March 1983 on 82L/3. Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |
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After Prince Iwao Oyama (1842-1916), Japanese Commander-in-Chief in Russo-Japanese War, 1904. Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |
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Oyama Post Office opened May 1, 1906. Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |
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Not an Indian name, but that of Prince Iwao Oyama (1842-1916), Japanese field marshal, captor of Port Arthur in the First Sino-Japanese War, and commander in Manchuria in the Russo-Japanese War. The Post Office at Oyama was opened in 1906. Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; "1001 British Columbia Place Names"; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973. |