| 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: | S end of Otter Lake, NW of Princeton, Yale Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°32'44"N, 120°45'34"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92H/10 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Tulameen (Village), not Tulameen City" adopted in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924, as labelled on Geological Survey sheet 45A, 1911. Form of name changed to Tulameen (Post Office) in 1966 BC Gazetteer. Form of name changed to Tulameen (Station) 3 October 1969. Form of name changed to Tulameen (Community) 14 May 1982. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Tulameen Post Office opened 1 March 1907, named in association with Tulameen River; John H. Jackson, postmaster. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Tulameen....originally called Otter Flat, according to G.M. Dawson in 1877." (Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa) [citation not located in Dawson's 1877 report to Geological Survey of Canada. Note that Tulameen (settlement) was established on Otter Flat, but there is no evidence in BC files that the settlement itself was ever called Otter Flat.] Source: included with note |