Faulder
| 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 CPR, W of Summerland, Osoyoos Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°36'39"N, 119°46'54"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82E/12 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 6 October 1936 on Geological Survey sheet 420A, Kettle River. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"After Evelyn Robert Faulder, a Harrow man who came to Summerland in 1891 to learn ranching and later pre-empted here." (12th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society, 1948) Source: included with note |
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October 1989 advice from CPR: track is no longer used, but is still maintained. Source: BC place name cards, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |