| 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: | Not official |
| Other Names: | SahtlamOfficial |
| Relative Location: | N side Cowichan River just W of Duncan, Sahtlam Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°45'59"N, 123°48'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92B/13 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Sahtlam Post Office opened 1 April 1926 (exact location not cited); re-named Benallack Post Office 1 October 1926, situated on Lot 2, Sec 10, R 10 adjacent to the railway station of the same name; renamed Sahtlam Post Office 1 December 1928. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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There is a Post Office at the logging camp of the Scottish Palmer Lumber Company at this point, designated as Bennallack. Firlock Lumber Company's mill is located here (shipping point at mile 65.4 Cowichan Subdivision, E&N). Firlock Lumber Company of Vancouver expects to ship one or two cars of lumber, each day for two or three years, to points in Eastern Canada and the United States. (23 May 1927 letter from CNR). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after Richard Benallack, late of the Royal Dragoons, Imperial Army, who settled here in 1894. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |