| 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: | W side of North Thompson River, NE of Clearwater, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°46'59"N, 119°19'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82M/14 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Avola (Post Office & Station) adopted in the 1930 BC Gazetteer, as labelled on BC maps 1EM, 1915, and 3M, 1917; confirmed 27 July 1966 on 82 NW. Form of name changed to Avola (Community) 15 December 1982 on 82M/14. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Avola Post Office opened 1 September 1913. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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A post office was opened here in 1913 during construction of the CNR. Since there was already a Stillwater Post Office elsewhere in British Columbia, the existing name of Stillwater Flats was discarded and that of Avola in Sicily borrowed. Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; British Columbia Place Names; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997 |
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Named in 1913 for a Sicilian town by the CNR. For 50 years previously it had been Stillwater Flats, for the pleasant interlude in North Thompson turbulence. Source: Place Names of the Kamloops District; Kamloops Museum, 1978 |