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Latitude: 53°07'27"
Longitude: 119°50'16"
Dunster (Post Office and Station) adopted May 23, 1963 on 83E/4, as labelled on BC map 3H, 1919.
Form of name changed to Dunster (community) December 13, 1982.
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office.
Dunster Post Office was opened December 1, 1915 , named after a village in England.
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office.
The station was constructed in 1913 and named Dunster by a Grand Trunk Pacific Railway inspector after his hometown in England. The Dunster post office began in December 1915 in the house of the first postmaster, George Hall. In 1921, Mrs. A. McDonald took over the post office, moving it into the log building constructed by her husband, Alec McDonald, opposite the railway station. (Postscript ' 90, published by Fraser-Fort George Museum Society, 1990.)
Information courtesy of the BC Gazetteer.
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