| 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: | Between Armstrong and Sicamous, SE of Salmon Arm (city), Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°37'59"N, 119°07'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/11 |
| Related Maps: |
82L/10 82L/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Grindrod (Post Office) adopted 3 November 1932 on 82 L/NW. Form of name changed to Grindrod (community) 14 January 1983 on 82 L/11. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Grindrod Post Office was opened 1 November 1911, John Monk, postmaster. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Named by CPR officials after Edmund Holden Grindrod, first CPR telegraph inspector in BC, 1886-1910 (when telegraph lines in Okanagan Valley, down Arrow Lakes and in Kootenay Country were constructed); afterwards a farmer south of Kamloops. Born at Rochdale, England 26 February 1859; [still] lives at Kamloops." (12th Report of the Okanagan Historical Soceity, 1948, citing Kamloops Sentinel, 3 March 1943, and Burt R. Campbell). Source: included with note |