Brookmere (Post Office & Railway Station) adopted 6 October 1936 on Geological Survey sheet 421A, Hope, as labelled on BC map 2B, 1914, and on BC Lands topographic survey "Otter Creek and vicinity, Similkameen and Nicola Valleys", by R.D. McCaw, 1925. Form of name changed to Brookmere (Railway Station) (date not cited); further changed to Brookmere (Locality) 29 November 1984 for 1985 Gazetteer (Ottawa file 203-2). Confirmed 3 July 1990 on 92 H/15.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

1915 Railways survey plan 6T202 identifies the "community" of Brookmere, with street names. Brookmere Post Office opened 1 September 1916; closed 18 December 1969.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

Named after Louis H. Brooks and Phillip R. Brooks, who settled on Lots 659 and 590, respectively, in 1909. "Brooksville" it is said, would have an advantageous position, being located at The Otter Summit [of the KVR] and lying between Pass Creek [now Brook Creek] and the west fork of Otter Creek [now Spearing Creek]. Why Brooksville became Brookmere is not known.

Source: Lean, Pat; Nicola Valley Place Names; unpublished manuscript, 1993

Named c1914 by James John Warren, President of Kettle Valley Railway, after Louis Henry ("Harry") Brooks, happy-go-lucky cattle man and butcher. A native of Charleston, Illinois who took up land here in 1910; afterwards a hotelkeeper at Coalmont, where he died 2 July 1916, age 59. Brook Creek, nearby, is also named after him.

Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions