Drynoch
| Feature Type: | Railway Point - A named railway siding, junction, flag stop or timing point with or without an agent. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | On CPR, E side of Thompson River below Spences Bridge (community), between Lytton and Ashcroft, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°20'20"N, 121°23'43"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92I/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 6 October 1936 on Geological Survey sheet 408A, Ashcroft, as labelled on BC map 2B, 1914. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named by H.A.F. McLeod, CPR construction engineer here, 1882-1885, after Drynoch on the Isle of Skye [Scotland], the seat of the Clan McLeod. (April 1963 letter, file 01296-M) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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In November 1953 Mr. Shaw asked that the name be changed, but the request was turned down by CPR and by the Geographic Board (file A.1.36) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |