| 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: | N of Vedder River, SW of Chilliwack, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°06'59"N, 122°01'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/1 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Atchelitz (Post Office) adopted 12 December 1939 on 92 G/1, as labelled on BC map 2B, 1914; identified as Atchelitz (settlement) in the 1666 BC Gazetteer; subsequently changed to Atchelitz (Community). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Atchelitz Post Office opened 1 December 1912, P.G. Barr, postmaster; closed 31 August 1946. At the time of closing, the Post Office was situated on SE 1/4, Sec 14, Tp 23. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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An [Indigenous] word meaning "bay" or "inlet"; spelled "Atchletch" in BC Journal, 1891, p.liii; Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Atchelits is village no. 3 in the Chilliwak [sic] tribe of the Salish stock inhabiting the lower Fraser valley. It had a population of 4 in 1911. Source: Nelson, Denys; Place Names of the Delta of the Fraser River; 1927, unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives |