Othello (Station) adopted 6 October 1936 on Geological Survey sheet 422A, Hope, as labelled on Department of Interior's map of Southern British Columbia Railway Belt, ed.5, 1924. Name rescinded June 1976. Othello (locality) reinstated 4 January 1985 on 92H/6.

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

Coquihalla subdivision of CPR was closed in November 1959, and track is now being removed (October 1961 letter from CPR, file 01296T)

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

"Othello, Lear, Jessica, Verona (now Aurum), Portia, Iago, Romeo and Juliet - stations on CPR's Kettle Valley Line between Hope and Brookmere - were named after Shakespeare's characters or locations by KVR president James John Warren (1870-1939), a Toronto corporations lawyer and director. This section of the KVR was completed in 1916. He probably named the stations Jura and Belfort also."

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

"...a daughter of James J. Warren, president of the Kettle Valley Railroad, persuaded her father to name the stations east of Hope after Shakespearean characters...."

Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; 1001 British Columbia Place Names; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973.