Chase (Post Office) adopted 3 November 1932 on 82 L/NW, as labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915. Incorporated as a Village Municipality 22 April 1969. Chase (Village) confirmed 15 December 1982 on 82 L/13. Boundary extention February 2005, to incorporate a satellite area at Adams Lake.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

Chase Post Office opened 1 October 1908, John Haldane postmaster. See also the municipality's own website.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

"After Whitfield Chase, who had acquired the interests of a number of pre-emptors between 1864 and 1867. It is evident that Chase was in possession of the pre-emption of J.J. Sicklar prior to 16 September 1865, because reference is made to the presence of Chase on the Sicklar pre-emption of that date."

Source: Laing, Frederick W; Geographical Naming Record, September 1938; unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives

"...Whitfield Chase (1820-1896), a native of New York state who came west over the Oregon Trail in 1852. For some years he worked as a carpenter and unprofitably prospected for gold on the Fraser and Thompson Rivers. In 1865 he established a ranch where the South Thompson runs out from Little Shuswap Lake.....

Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; British Columbia Place Names; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997