| 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 |
| Other Names: | Alvaston |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | S end of Wood Lake, E side Okanagan Lake N of Kelowna, Osoyoos Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°01'45"N, 119°24'09"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/3 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Winfield (not Alvaston)" identified as a flag station & farming settlement in the 1930 BCGazetteer. Form of name changed to Winfield (Post Office) 7 October 1947 on 82NW. Form of name changed to Winfield (Community) 15 March 1983 on 82L/3. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Alvaston Post Office opened here 1 October 1909, A. Chatterton postmaster; closed 1 April 1919. Winfield Post Office opened 23 January 1948, L. Clement postmaster. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Former name, Alvaston, given by A. Chatterton (first postmaster) after a place in England. Renamed after Winfield Lodge, home of Thomas Wood, JP, stockraiser, who pre-empted here in 1871." (12th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society, 1948, citing F.M. Buckland) Source: included with note |
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"First settler Thomas Wood, who arrived about 1860 and called his home Winfield Lodge. A stockman and JP, he gave his name to Woods [sic] Lake. He sold out to N.H. Caesar in 1902. Rural mail delivery was inaugurated here in 1909 and Wood's Lake School district in the same year." (An Historical Gazetteer of Okanagan-Similkameen, Okanagan Historical Society, 1958, p.157-158) Source: included with note |