Glenrosa
| 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 |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W side of Powers Creek in West Kelowna (municipality), W side of Okanagan Lake opposite Kelowna, Osoyoos Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°50'01"N, 119°39'38"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82E/13 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Decision on OBF 1525. Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |
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Glenrosa Post Office was opened 1 January 1912, D. Hitchner postmaster; closed 31 October 1933. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named by brothers Curtis and Louis David Hitchner, involved with real estate, logging and a sawmill, who came from Kansas, c1907. They first named their subdivision Glencoe, but as the PO authorities objected, since the name was already in use elsewhere, they changed it to Glenrosa. (12th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society, 1948) Source: included with note |