Taft
| 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, SW of Revelstoke on N side of Eagle River, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°58'59"N, 118°39'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/15 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Taft Post Office opened 1908; closed 30 November 1945 Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named by CPR, after William Howard Taft (1857-1930), 27th President of the United States, who had just been elected when the siding was put in here; US president 1909-13; teacher at Yale Law School 1913-21; chief justice of the US Supreme Court 1921-30. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |