| 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. |
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Not official
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| Relative Location: | SE of Monte Lake, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°27'59"N, 119°45'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adelphi Post Office was opened 1 November 1900; name changed to Westwold Post Office 9 September 1926 Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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In 1895 Walter U. Homfray built a hotel in Grande Prairie, grandly naming it the Adelphi; its empty shell still remains. He added a P.O. in 1900 with the same name, much to the disgust of earlier settlers who preferred the old designation. The matter was finally settled by the National Geographic Board (sic) in 1926, when the village was named Westwold, despite protests from old-timers. [note that the matter was settled by the Post Office Bureau, when they re-named the postal facility in 1926] Source: Place Names of the Kamloops District; Kamloops Museum, 1978 |