| Feature Type: | Locality - A named place or area, generally with a scattered population of 50 or less. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | E side of Fraser River between Yale and Boston Bar, Yale Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°42'59"N, 121°25'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92H/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Chapmans (Station) adopted 6 October 1936 on Geological Survey sheet 422A, Hope, as listed in 1930 BC Gazetteer. Form of name changed to Chapmans (locality) 14 May 1982 on 92 H/11. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in association with the adjacent gravel bar, in turn named after the owner of the roadhouse here, on the Cariboo (gold rush) Road. Chapmans Bar is labelled on G. Epner's "Map of the Gold Regions of British Columbia", 1862. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Hell's Gate" identified on BC name card as old or other name for Chapmans (map/document title or date not cited). Feature type is not specified. This is assumed to be an error on the BC name card. [Note that Hells Gate (canyon) is more than 5 miles north of here, and the CN station at that point was called "Gorge" ]. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |