Lytton Shatford

Lytton Wilmot Shatford (February 4, 1873 - November 8, 1920) was a politician and businessman in British Columbia, Canada.

Biography Born in Hubbards, Nova Scotia, he moved west during one of the British Columbia gold rushes where he and his brother, Walter Tyrrel Shatford, ran a general store in the gold mining town of Fairview near what is now Oliver. They also owned the Shatford Mercantile Store in Hedley which was one of the town's first permanent structures.

In 1905, the brothers established the Southern Okanagan Land Company. They proceeded to purchase and subdivide land north of the Canada/US border and installed in irrigation system in the area of Vaseux Lake. In 1918, they sold to the government of British Columbia for $300,000 in order to settle demobilized Canadian soldiers following World War I.

He was the second president of the BC and Yukon Chamber of Mines, founded in 1912. The first president was Robert Hedley. Shatford was elected at the organization's first annual general meeting in 1913.

The Shatford School, now part of Penticton Secondary School in Penticton, British Columbia was named in his honour.