| Feature Type: | Railway Point - A named railway siding, junction, flag stop or timing point with or without an agent. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | On CNR and CPR, E side of Thompson River, S of Ashcroft, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°37'59"N, 121°18'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92I/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 6 October 1936 on 92I/ W, as labelled on Dominion sectional sheet 111, Kamloops, 1916, and as listed in 1930 BC Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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This had been an emergency junction of the CPR and CNR. Named after the Basque Ranch of Antonio Minaberriet, a farmer who settled on the west side of the river c1878. Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |
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Antoine Minaberriet settled near Ashcroft in the early 1860s. He developed an excellent ranch, naming it for his homeland, and provided winter pasture for many Cariboo packers. In 1883 he sold to Walter Langley and returned to France. Source: Place Names of the Kamloops District; Kamloops Museum, 1978 |