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Downie / Downie Creek

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Revelstoke, BC (Nearby: Big Eddy, Canyon Hot Springs, Arrowhead, Galena Bay, Craigellachie)

12 - 555 VICTORIA RD
Revelstoke, British Columbia
V0E 3S0

British Columbia Tourism Region : Kootenay Rockies

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After 'Major' William Downie, who also had Downieville, California, named after him. In 1858 Governor Douglas, who thought very highly of Downie, employed him with J.W. McKay to explore the route south from Pemberton to Howe Sound.
The next year Downie explored around Jervis and Bute Inlets, led an unsuccessful expedition to the Queen Charlotte Islands, but rehabilitated himself with a tremendous journey up the Skeena, then via Babine Lake to Fort St. James,
and then by way of the Fraser to the Cariboo goldfields. In 1865 he led a party of gold-seekers from Washington Territory up the Columbia River to the Big Bend country north of modern Revelstoke.
With permission from G.P.V and Helen B. Akrigg 1997 British Columbia Place Names. UBC Press.

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Nearby:	Big Eddy, 1km Greeley, 8km Martha Creek Park / Carnes Creek, 17km Clanwilliam, 11km English Lake Park, 13km Parc national du Canada du Mont-Revelstoke, 14km Mount Revelstoke National Park of Canada / Mount Bonney, 14km Blanket Creek Park, 20km Victor Lake Park, 15km Twin Butte, 16km Greenbush Lake Protected Area, 26km Three Valley, 20km Lauretta, 22km Albert Canyon, 27km Upper Shuswap River Ecological Reserve, 38km Mount Griffin Ecological Reserve, 27km Canyon Hot Springs / Billy Whiskers Glacier, 28km	Mount Griffin Park, 28km Arrowhead, 37km Shelter Bay, 45km Taft, 32km Monashee Park, 51km Wap Creek Park, 40km Galena Bay / Hill Creek, 44km Illecillewaet, 37km Eagle River Park, 35km Craigellachie, 37km Beaton, 44km Flat Creek, 43km Camborne, 46km Malakwa / Clanwilliam Lake / Eagles Pass / Malakwa / Perry River / Queest Creek / Woolsey Creek, 43km Kingfisher Creek Ecological Reserve, 47km Kingfisher Creek Park, 47km Yard Creek Park, 45km	Ross Peak, 50km Kingfisher, 57km Columbia-Shuswap Regional District, 59km Cambie, 48km Skookumchuck Rapids Park, 58km Hupel, 58km Parc national du Canada des Glaciers, 56km Glacier National Park of Canada, 56km Glacier, 56km Anstey Hunakwa Park / Anstey Arm, 53km Rogers Pass National Historic Site of Canada, 58km Lieu historique national du Canada du Col-Rogers, 58km Rogers Pass, 58km Trout Lake, 60km Macdonald, 58km Mabel Lake Park, 71km
Nearby Lakes and Mountains:	Williamson Lake, 4km Balsam Lakes, 6km Heather Lake, 7km Mount Revelstoke, 7km Begbie Lake, 10km Mount Mackenzie, 8km Mount Macpherson, 10km Miller Lake, 10km Eva Lake, 11km Mount Begbie, 13km Mount Williamson, 12km Tilley Lake, 14km Wetask Lake, 10km Upper Jade Lake, 12km Scottish Lake, 12km Brim Lake, 14km Lower Jade Lake, 12km	Heart Lake, 15km Revelation Lake, 15km Mount Tilley, 14km Surprise Lake, 15km Mount Dickey, 15km Turquoise Lake, 15km Topowap Lake, 15km English Lake, 13km Mount Cartier, 14km Col Lake, 17km Mount Coursier, 15km Clanwilliam Lake, 13km Ghost Peak, 14km Inverness Peaks, 15km Hanner Lake, 13km Mount St. Cyr, 18km Echo Lake, 18km	Columbia Mountains, 14km Davis Peak, 19km Victor Lake, 15km Mount English, 17km Twin Butte, 15km Blanket Mountain, 27km Mount Klotz, 20km Greenbush Lake, 26km Mount Copeland, 21km Armstrong Peak, 28km Perry Lake, 21km Three Valley Lake, 20km Mount La Forme, 27km Mount Llewelyn, 19km Cranberry Mountain, 33km Joss Lake, 26km

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