| 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 |
| Other Names: | Brightwater |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | NW side of Salmon Arm Shuswap Lake, just N of Salmon Arm (municipality), Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°46'59"N, 119°20'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/14 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Tappen (Post Office) adopted 3 November 1932 on 82L/NW, as labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915. Form of name changed to Tappen (community) 15 March 1983 on 82L/14. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Sawmill located here c1883; Tappen Station labelled on BC Lands map of Eastern BC, 1891; Tappen Siding Post Office opened here 1 July 1892, F.McCulla, postmaster; closed 1 February 1897. Brightwater Post Office was opened in this location 1 August 1908, H.C.Banks, postmaster; name changed to Tappen Post Office 1 August 1911. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Herbert Tappen, CPR constuction contractor in the 1880's, from Massachusetts; was a cousin of Andrew Onderdonk, chief CPR contractor in British Columbia, and a partner or sub-contractor of Temple Frederick Sinclair. 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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A misspelling of Tappan, the name of one of the sub-contractors who laid the CPR track along here in 1884. 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 |