| 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: | At junction of Fraser and Thompson Rivers, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°13'51"N, 121°34'52"W at the approximate location of the Municipal Hall. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92I/4 |
|
|
Origin Notes and History:
|
Lytton (Post Office & Railway Station) adopted 6 October 1936 on Geological Survey sheet 408A, as labelled on BC map 2B, 1914. Incorporated as a Village Municipality 3 May 1945; subsequently confirmed as Lytton (Village) (date not cited). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
|
Named in 1858 by Governor Douglas, after Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), Colonial Secretary at the time the village was established, and later Earl of Lytton. Note conflicting birth/death dates in some biographical dictionaries. See Akrigg for additional biographical information. Lytton Post Office was opened in 1872 (specific date not cited). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
|
This was once the site of an Indigenous village called Camchin, meaning approximately "crossing over". The short-lived Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Dallas was also located here. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
|
Camchin.....which means "the great fork". Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |