| Feature Type: | Post Office - A Canada Post designation; the post office name may or may not be the same as the name of the place where it is located. |
| Status: | Not official |
| Relative Location: | S side of Fraser River W of Hope, Yale Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°22'02"N, 121°30'39"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92H/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Flood (Post Office) adopted 6 October 1936 on Geological Survey map 422A, Hope, as labelled on BC Lands' map 2B, 1914, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Name rescinded 15 January 1982. Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |
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Flood Post Office was opened 1 December 1913, named after William Lewis Flood, early builder and sawmill operator in the Hope district, who had settled here in 1894 and purchased or obtained a Crown Grant to NW 1/4 Sec 1 Tp5 R27 W6M. Both the post office and the railway station (named Floods by CPR) were located on Mr. Flood's property. Flood Post Office was closed 2 July 1960. Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |