| 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 Skaha Lake, S of Penticton, Similkameen Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°23'59"N, 119°36'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82E/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Kaleden (Town) adopted 6 October 1936 on Ottawa file OBF 1525. Identified as Kaleden (Post Office) in the 1966 BC Gazetteer. Form of name changed to Kaleden (community) 14 January 1983 on 82 E/5. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Kaleden Post Office was opened 1 April 1910, A.S. Hatfield postmaster. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"James Ritchie of Summerland laid out a townsite here in 1909 and offered a prize of a town lot for the best name proposed for [the new townsite]. Rev. Walter Russell, a Baptist evangelist visiting the Okanagan, won by proposing this name - made of Kal, from the Greek, "beautiful", and Eden, name of the Biblical orchard." (12th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society, 1948, citing Mrs. R.B. White). Source: included with note |