Gellatly
| 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: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | In West Kelowna (municipality), W side of Okanagan Lake opposite Kelowna, Osoyoos Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°48'46"N, 119°37'37"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82E/13 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Decision on 82E. Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |
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Gellatly Post Office was opened 1 June 1903, C. Osborne postmaster; closed 30 June 1926. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After David Erskine Gellatly, large scale vegetable and fruit grower and dealer, 1900-17. Came from Scotland to Northern Ontario in 1883, then to the Okanagan Valley in 1893. "Father of the produce business in the Okanagan." "Tomato King of the Okanagan." Gellatly died at Vernon, March 7, 1922, aged 65. (12th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society, 1948). Source: included with note |