| 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: | NE side of Kelowna (city), Osoyoos Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°53'59"N, 119°23'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82E/14 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Rutland (town) adopted 6 October 1936 on Geological Survey sheet 420A, Kettle River, as labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915. Form of name changed to Rutland (Post Office & Station) 6 October 1955 on 82SW; located at the junction of CNR and CPR lines. Form of name changed to Rutland (community) 29 November 1984 (file 203-2). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Rutland Post Office was opened 1 October 1908; D. E. McDonald, postmaster. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"After John ("Hope") Rutland, who came from Australian in the 1890s and wheat-farmed here. In the 1900s he sold to a syndicate which subdivided the land and adjacent land and named the district after him." (12th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society, 1948, citing advice from F.M. Buckland). Source: included with note |
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After John Matthew Rutland, an Australian who....planted the first commercial orchards and installed the first large irrigation system here. Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; 1001 British Columbia Place Names; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973. |