| Feature Type: | Provincial Park - Legally defined land area, under provincial jurisdiction, for camping, outdoor recreation, and preservation of wildlife. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | NE side of Okanagan Lake, SW of Vernon, Osoyoos Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°10'30"N, 119°25'59"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/3 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Established per Order in Council 1147, 1 May 1962. Area extended per OIC 869, 12 May 1988, and by 1201/90. Conversion of OIC to Statute designation per Bill 17-2000: Protected Areas of British Columbia Act, 29 June 2000; the whole containing 219 hectares (200 hectares of upland and 19 hectares of foreshore ha. more or less. See Ellison (community) for additional biographical information. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after Price Ellison (1852-1932), who settled here in 1876, and at one time owned or controlled 80% of the property in the area. In 1910, as a cabinet minister in the McBride government, Ellison and his daughter Myra accompanied a party of surveyors to explore and establish boundaries for what would become, the following year, Strathcona Park - British Columbia's first provincial park. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |