| Feature Type: | Locality - A named place or area, generally with a scattered population of 50 or less. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | On Hwy 3, between Greenwood and Grand Forks, Similkameen Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°09'22"N, 118°32'35"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82E/2 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Eholt (Station) adopted 6 October 1955, as labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915 et seq; form of name changed to Eholt (locality) 11 July 1995 on 82 E/2. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Railway station & (70 car ?) siding on the divide between the North Fork of Kettle River and Boundary Creek. "Named after Louis Eholt who came into the district from Lillooet and took up land for cattle ranching here, and down Eholt Creek in 1890." (Rupert W. Haggen, BCLS, Origin of Place Names in Boundary District, 1945 manuscript, file H.1.45.). Eholt eventually became the CPR headquarters for hauling out the ore mined at Phoenix. Eholt Post Office opened 1 September 1899; closed 15 November 1948 - at the time of closing, the post office was situated in the SE portion of Lot 1222. Photocopy of Mr. Eholt's signature on file G.1.57. See also "Ghost Towns of British Columbia" Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"...[Louis Eholt] took up the first ranch at Midway...six years ago." (letter from R.A. "Volcanic" Brown, responding to James White's survey of Postmasters, 1905.) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |