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.
Yale (Station) adopted 6 October 1936 on 92H. Form of name changed to Yale (Post Office) in the 1966 BC Gazetteer. Form of name changed to Yale (community) 14 May 1982 on 92H/11.
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office
Ovid Allard established a new Hudsons Bay Company post here in 1847; the post was named Fort Yale, after James Murray Yale.
Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa
Near the CPR station, Parks Canada has installed a National Historic Site monument "to mark the site of Fort Yale, the southern terminal of the Cariboo Wagon Road, built 1862-65, which extended northward 400 miles to the Cariboo gold fields."
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office