| Language of origin | English language |
| Feature Type: | Bluff (2) - A steep-sided hill or promontory. |
| Status: | Not official |
| Other Names: | nʕaylintnOfficial |
| Relative Location: | W side of Okanagan River just S of Vaseux Lake, S of Penticton, Similkameen Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°15'16"N, 119°32'05"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82E/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 7 October 1954 on 82E/SW. Name changed to Nʕaylintn per request from Osoyoos Indian Band as part of agreement with Ministry of Environment, 7 August 2015. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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"No traveller in the southern Okanagan can fail to be impressed by the tremendous precipice-faced rock rising at the southern end of Vaseux Lake. This is McIntyre Bluff, named after Peter McIntyre, one of the Overlanders of 1862. Earlier he had been an [Indigenous] fighter and a guard on the Pony Express in the American West. Late in 1886 he received a crown grant to the land beside this bluff." Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; 1001 British Columbia Place Names; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973. |